Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysis (Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032025646 ISBN 13: 9781032025643

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

This innovative volume is one of the first to represent the usage of bilingual writers in both their languages, offering insight into language corpora as extremely valuable tools in contemporary applied linguistics research, and in turn, into how much of the world’s population operate daily.

This book discusses one of the first examples of a bilingual writer corpus, the Zayed Arabic-English Bilingual Undergraduate Corpus (ZAEBUC), which includes writing by hundreds of students in two languages, with additional information about the writers and the texts. The result is a rich resource for research in multilingual use and learning of language. The book takes the reader through the design and use of such a corpus and illustrates the potential of this type of corpus with detailed studies that show how assessment, vocabulary, and discourse work across two very different languages.

This volume will be of interest to scholars, policymakers, and educators in bilingualism, plurilingualism, language education, corpus design, and natural language processing.

About this title

About the Author

David M. Palfreyman is Professor of Language Studies and Assistant Dean for Research and Outreach at Zayed University, Dubai. He is a language teacher educator, a specialist in academic biliteracy, and founding editor of the journal Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Gulf Perspectives.

Nizar Habash is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Computational Approaches to Modeling Language (CAMeL) Lab at New York University Abu Dhabi. His research includes extensive work on machine translation, morphological analysis, and computational modelling of Arabic and its dialects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032025646
• ISBN 13: 9781032025643
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 298
• Editor: Palfreyman David M., Habash Nizar