Using corpus linguistics methods in longitudinal educational research
Speaker(s):
Bio: Duygu Candarli (Ph.D.) is currently Lecturer in TESOL at the University of Southampton. She specialises in second language writing, writing assessment, corpus linguistics, and academic discourse. She has published in international journals such as Critical Discourse Studies, Reading and Writing, Corpora, and Journal of English for Academic Purposes. She is the co-author of The Linguistic Challenge of the Transition to Secondary School: A Corpus Study of Academic Language (Routledge, 2022).
Abstract:
This session will provide an overview of the use of corpus linguistics methods to address questions in longitudinal educational research. Corpus linguistics methods, which are concerned with the use of computational techniques to analyse large collections of spoken and written texts, offer an advantage over qualitative methods in educational research. The session will exemplify these methods by utilising longitudinal textual secondary data in education. Participants will have an opportunity to familiarise themselves with corpus linguistics methods and free corpus tools and interpret the findings to explore longitudinal phenomena in the discipline of education.