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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 | WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE (%100 English) | | 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 : | learn how to use machine-readable corpora | 12 - 14 - 15 | 1, | | LO - 2 : | learn how to make structure analysis in a corpus text | 12 | 1, | | LO - 3 : | learn how corpora can be used for lexical analysis | 12 | 3, | | LO - 4 : | learn how to make N-gram and collocation analysis in a corpus text | 12 | 3, | | LO - 5 : | learn how the make frequency-based and comparable text analysis | 12 | 3, | | 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, intrudicng word combanations, collocations and word clusters | | | 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 selected | | | 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. | | | |
| 1 | Conrad, Susan (1999), ?The importance of corpus-based research for language teachers?, System, 27, (1-18). | | | 2 | Nesselhauf, Nadja (2004), Collocations in a Learner Corpus, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. | | | 3 | Sinclair, J. (1991), Corpus, Concordance, Collocation, Oxford University Press, Oxford. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Project | 10 | | 5 | 50 | | Homework/Assignment/Term-paper | 13 | | 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 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 7 | 2 | 14 | | Ödev | 6 | 6 | 36 | | Proje | 6 | 5 | 30 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 6 | 2 | 12 | | Total work load | | | 120 |
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