I joined the Futurelearn\/Lancaster University Corpus MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) this week to supplement the module on technology and corpus linguistics I’m studying for my MA.
\nSo far, so good. I’ve managed to watch all of the video lectures and I’ve done a good deal of the reading. It’s just a bit of a dip of your toe in the water this week but it was useful to read about different types of corpora as well as how to read the frequency data and so on (spoiler: think of source material and how wide it is).
\nOne thing that did come up that I wanted to reflect upon was something said in one of the lectures:
\nCorpora may be used by language teachers to check frequency of occurrence so they may decide to teach their learners more high-frequency items.
\nIt sounds right but then what about sequences of acquisition? Sure, single words, especially simple nouns or verbs might be chosen, but could it be the case that some high-frequency structures are acquired later than less frequent ones? I think I have more reading to do! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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