This presentation will introduce innovative ways to use learner corpora (collections of spoken or written texts from learners) in the language learning classroom, focusing on asset-based approaches to learner language. Example activities will be from MACAWS (a learner corpus of Portuguese and Russian), but principles shared will be applicable to English and other languages. Resources for a variety of languages will be provided.
Presenters: Asya Gorlova & Shelley Staples, University of Arizona
Hosted by: Ellie Kuznetsova & Margi Wald, CIRT-IG Coordinators
Asya Gorlova is a PhD Candidate in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. Her research interests include refugee language education, teacher professional learning, and critical pedagogies. In MACAWS, she is primarily interested in the implementation of corpus-based pedagogical materials and teacher preparation.
Shelley Staples (PhD in Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona University, 2014) is Professor of English Applied Linguistics/Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at University of Arizona. Her research focuses on the use of corpus-based discourse analysis to investigate language use across spoken and written contexts. In addition, her research aims to inform language teaching and assessment, particularly in the areas of English for Academic and Specific Purposes (EAP/ESP). In addition to MACAWS, she is a PI of the Corpus and Repository of Writing (Crow).
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