Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
TEACHING IN ONLINE AND BLENDED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS - Emerging Trends in English Language Teaching, Ömer Özer,Ceyhun Yükselir, Editör, Nobel Yayınevi, Ankara, ss.13-31, 2023
Corpora are either used directly by language instructors to teach a particular aspect of language or indirectly to design materials for language teaching. They are also used to build language assessment material or assess student writings. Reference corpora, consisting of texts by native speakers of English, are particularly preferred over specialised corpora as non-native teachers do not trust their language intuitions and these corpora include the most natural language samples to help students discover the language in context. On the other hand, learner corpora, used by researchers to investigate learners’ interlanguage, are not broadly utilised in language teaching as they are rather scarce due to their laboursome development phase, and they may not represent natural language use, given the infelicities in learner production. Recent technological developments enable more reliable annotation of learner corpora, and they have the potential to guide material designers, language instructors and assessors. Current trends in learner corpus research show that its integration with natural language processing techniques can yield more powerful and pedagogically more convenient results. Following this trend, this chapter (a) takes an overall look at the use of corpora in language education, (b) introduces the fields of learner corpus and natural language processing (NLP), (c) highlights the intersection of learner corpora and NLP by referring to research tools used to detect L2 writing performance, and (e) reports the results of a study investigating the relationship between the use of multi-word expressions and overall writing performance by incorporating learner corpus and NLP techniques.