ELT523 USING CORPORA FOR LANGUAGE RESEARCH
| Course Code: |
8200523 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
English Language Teaching |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
Assoc.Prof.Dr. HALE IÞIK GÜLER |
| Offered Semester: |
Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
The course aims to investigate language using corpora.Special emphasis is given to the usage of corpora with a linguistic and cognitive science perspective. The topics include: Definition and varieties of corpora; building a corpus: sampling .representativeness. encoding and annotation; characteristics of major available corpora; necessary statistics to interpret corpus data; using corpora: corpora in psycholinguistics.syntax.semantics.discourse. etc.; using tools for corpus-based language studies. The course includes conducting research projects using available tools.
