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Su Tingting; Mohamed Abdou Moindjie; Manjet Kaur A/P Mehar Singh – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2024
This study examines the use of English film subtitles to cultivate critical language awareness (CLA) and enhance language skills via a corpus-based approach. Creating and analyzing a specialized corpus of film subtitles reveals the cultural, social, and ideological dimensions of language usage. The findings show that film subtitles provide an…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Computational Linguistics, English, Language Usage
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Köroglu, Zehra – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
This study has been conducted to evaluate the transition marker (TM) usage in the doctoral dissertations written by the native speakers (NSs) of English and the Turkish speakers (TSs) of English. The purpose is to compare the TM usage in the introduction, results and discussion, and conclusion sections by both groups' randomly selected PhD…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Computer Software, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Alipour, Mohammad; Nooreddinmoosa, Mona – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2018
This quantitative-qualitative study aimed to fathom out whether and how informal features are exploited in articles of applied linguistics written in English by natives and non-natives. To this end, a corpus of 200 articles was compiled. We employed the classification of informal features proposed by Chang and Swales (1999) representing 10…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, English for Academic Purposes, Classification
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Quinn, Akiva; Porter, Nick – English Today, 1994
Describes the International Corpus of English Corpus Utility Program (ICECUP), a computer-based text retrieval program designed to search a tagged corpus for words, word elements, and their grammatical roles. Explains the search, display options, concordance, and subcorpus selection features of the ICECUP program. (MDM)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Databases, English, Language Research