ELT523 USING CORPORA FOR LANGUAGE RESEARCH
| Course Code: |
8200523 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(0-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
6.0 |
| Department: |
English Language Teaching |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
Assist.Prof.Dr MÜGE GÜNDÜZ |
| 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.
