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On completion of this module, you should be able to:
- critically examine the notion of a corpus
- understand the uses of text corpora in language research
- explore corpora with simple to more complex tools
- use a concordance program to extract data from a corpus
- design and build your own corpus
- understand how to analyse corpus data through statistical and discourse analysis methods.
- Corpus Linguistics applications
- Types of corpora
- Corpus design
- Tools
- Investigating a corpus (textual markers, collocates, word lists, etc.)
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 24 |
Computer Aided Lab | 12 |
Specified Learning Activities | 36 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 40 |
Total | 112 |
several modules in Linguistics
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Project: Research-like paper | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 50 |
Assignment: Practical exercise (investigating a corpus) | Week 5 | n/a | Graded | No | 20 |
Assignment: Corpus design | Week 8 | n/a | Graded | No | 30 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Summer | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
Class feedback, hands-on activities, individual feedback (summative assesment form and comments)
Name | Role |
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Mr Tony Hopkins | Tutor |