Learner Corpus research and language teaching

Upon completion of this course, students will:

• have a comprehensive overview of the domain of learner corpus research, its contributions to L2 acquisition research and its applications in language teaching;
• have a comprehensive overview of the link between L2 development, teaching and assessment methods;
• have basic knowledge of how Large Language Models work and how they can inform and assist language learning;
• be able to evaluate corpus design criteria, annotation and analysis, as well as studies using Large Language Models, and interpret the significance of studies of vocabulary, phraseology, grammar, pragmatics and (dis)fluency for language teaching;
• be able to design their own study, selecting appropriate methods (either corpus linguistic, setting up a more applied linguistics study, or making use of Large Language Models)