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| ELL3036 | APPLIED CORPUS LINGUISTICS | 2+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Ali Şükrü ÖZBAY | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | This course introduces basic corpus skills for linguists:
Marking up linguistic information
Selecting text
The range of existing corpora
How to build your own corpus
Using corpora to train language tools |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | know how to use machine-readable corpora | | | | LO - 2 : | know how to interpret corpus data | | | | LO - 3 : | know how corpora are compiled | | | | LO - 4 : | know how to use corpora in English language research | | | | LO - 5 : | have increased insight into the English language and how it is used | | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| This course is an introduction to the fast growing field of corpus linguistics. It aims to familiarise students with key concepts and common methods used in the construction of language corpora, as well as tools that have been developed for searching and using major corpora such as the British National Corpus. Students will be given hands-on experience in pre-editing, annotating, and searching corpora. Criteria and methods used for evaluating corpora and analytical tools will also be discussed. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | introduction to corpus linguistics | | | Week 2 | teaching corpus tools; antconc, sketchengine, wordsmith | | | Week 3 | teaching corpora types and free available corpora; bawe, bnc, coca | | | Week 4 | teaching corpus design and how to create a corpus | | | Week 5 | corpus compiling process | | | Week 6 | basic research on own corpora | | | Week 7 | analyzing and interpreting the data of the research | | | Week 8 | choosing a subject in order to study on freely available corpora | | | Week 9 | writing introduction and literature review about the subject | | | Week 10 | writing the methodology part of the study | | | Week 11 | researching about the subject on the corpora | | | Week 12 | analyzing the data of the research | | | Week 13 | interpreting the analyzed data of the research | | | Week 14 | having feedback of the reseach by the supervisor | | | Week 15 | editing and revising the study | | | Week 16 | delivering the final version of the research paper as the project | | | |
| 1 | Biber, Douglas (1993), Representativeness in Corpus Design, Literary and Linguistic Computing, 8 (4), 243 257. | | | 2 | Biber, Douglas et al. (1998), Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | | | 3 | Conrad, Susan (1999), The importance of corpus-based research for language teachers, System, 27, (1-18). | | | 4 | Nesselhauf, Nadja (2004), Collocations in a Learner Corpus, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. | | | 5 | Sinclair, J. (1991), Corpus, Concordance, Collocation, Oxford University Press, Oxford. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Project | 10 | 15/04/2025 | 5 | 50 | | Homework/Assignment/Term-paper | 13 | 11/06/2025 | 2 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Ödev | 10 | 5 | 50 | | Proje | 10 | 8 | 80 | | Total work load | | | 158 |
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