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Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań, Poland), Faculty of English, Faculty Member +2Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań, Poland), Faculty of English, Faculty MemberAdam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Faculty of English, Faculty MemberInternational Journal of Lexicography, Editor, Department Member

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ColloCaid: A Real-time Tool to Help Academic Writers with English Collocations

Writing is a cognitively challenging activity that can benefit from lexicographic support. Academ... more Writing is a cognitively challenging activity that can benefit from lexicographic support. Academic writing in English presents a particular challenge, given the extent of use of English for this purpose. The ColloCaid tool, currently under development, responds to this challenge. It is intended to assist academic English writers by providing collocation suggestions, as well as alerting writers to unconventional collocations choices as they write. The underlying collocational data are based on a carefully curated set of about 500 collocational bases (nouns, verbs, and adjectives) characteristic of Academic English, and their collocates with illustrative examples. These data have been derived from state-of-the-art corpora of academic English and academic vocabulary lists. The manual curation by expert lexicographers and reliance on specifically Academic English textual resources are what distinguishes ColloCaid from existing collocational resources. A further characteristic of ColloCaid is its strong emphasis on usability. The tool draws on dictionary-user research, findings in information visualization, as well as usability testing specific to ColloCaid in order to find an optimal amount of collocation prompts, and the best way to present them to the user.

Słownik widziany oczyma użytkowników, czyli okulografia w leksykografii

W ramach wykładu przedstawię możliwości okulografii, czyli techniki śledzenia ruchu gałek ocznych... more W ramach wykładu przedstawię możliwości okulografii, czyli techniki śledzenia ruchu gałek ocznych, w badaniu zachowań użytkowników słowników. Po krótkim wprowadzeniu przedstawię wyniki niedawnych badań własnych z wykorzystaniem tej techniki, w szczególności badania nad podziałem uwagi wzrokowej w lekturze haseł słownikowych ilustrowanych graficznie.

Not the word I wanted? How online English learners' dictionaries deal with misspelled words

Online dictionary skills

Lexicography

Online English Learners' Dictionaries and Misspellings: One Year On

by Robert Lew and Roger Mitton

International Journal of Lexicography, 2013

Not the word I wanted? How online English learners' dictionaries deal with misspelled words

by Robert Lew and Roger Mitton

Proceedings of eLex, 2011

This study looks at how well the leading monolingual English learners' dictionaries in their... more This study looks at how well the leading monolingual English learners' dictionaries in their online versions cope with misspelled words as search terms. Six such dictionaries are tested on a corpus of misspellings produced by Polish, Japanese, and Finnish learners of English. The performance of the dictionaries varies widely, but is in general poor. For a large proportion of cases, dictionaries fail to supply the intended word, and when they do, they do not place it at the top of the list of suggested alternatives. We attempt to identify ...

Do menus provide added value to signposts in monolingual dictionary entries?

by Bartosz Ptasznik and Robert Lew

Dictionary Users in the Digital Revolution

by Robert Lew and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver

International Journal of Lexicography, 2014

This contribution examines the digital revolution in lexicography from the perspective of the dic... more This contribution examines the digital revolution in lexicography from the perspective of the dictionary user. We begin with an observation that in the information age the status of the dictionary is changing, and so are patterns of user behaviour, with general internet search engines encroaching on the grounds traditionally reserved for lexicographic queries. Clearly, we need to know more about user behaviour in the digital environment, and for this we need to harness user research, to find out how the increasingly flexible and adaptive lexical reference tools of the future need to behave to best accommodate user needs. We summarize the existing findings and show in what ways digital dictionaries are already able to serve users better than their paper predecessors. The challenge to produce efficient and effective dictionaries is best seen in the context of dictionary users’ reference skills, which now tend to overlap with digital literacy. We conclude with a possible vision of the future.

Non-standard dictionary definitions: What they cannot tell native speakers of Polish

Cadernos de Traduçao, 2006

Longman słownik współczesny angielsko-polski, polsko-angielski

by Jacek Fisiak and Robert Lew

Review: G.-M. de Schryver (Editor). A Way with Words: Recent Advances in Lexical Theory and Analysis: A Festschrift for Patrick Hanks

Lexikos, Dec 13, 2010

Review: G.-M. de Schryver (Editor): <i>A Way with Words: Recent Advances 757 in Lexical The... more

The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography

ELT Journal, 2009

And so, in the first of three major parts of the Guide, titled &amp;amp;#x27;Pre-lexicography... more And so, in the first of three major parts of the Guide, titled &amp;amp;#x27;Pre-lexicography&amp;amp;#x27;, we are introduced to the primary source of evidence for modern dictionaries: large electronic text corpora. The authors skillfully present numerous practical issues in the acquisition of texts, including the impact of structure on the usefulness of corpora. We learn that not all corpora are made equal, discover the advantages and disadvantages of building corpora from the Web (as against more traditional corpora), and are told that the advantages now outweigh ...

Herbert Andreas Welker. O Uso de dicionarios: Panorama geral das pesquisas empiricas

International Journal of Lexicography, 2007

The work under review presents a comprehensive overview of the existing empirical research on dic... more The work under review presents a comprehensive overview of the existing empirical research on dictionary use. The main body of the book offers summaries of 220 individual studies, an average summary amounting to about a page and half, and thus quite substantial. The summaries have all been written by the author, and most are based on his first-hand reading of the original works. A minority of the summaries (I have counted 40 of these) are based on second-hand reports by one or more other authors, and these ...

Martin East. Dictionary Use in Foreign Language Writing Exams: Impact and Implications

International Journal of Lexicography, 2009

The overarching issue that Martin East tackles in his new book is whether dictionaries should be ... more The overarching issue that Martin East tackles in his new book is whether dictionaries should be allowed in writing exams in the foreign language. The larger part of the book is taken up by a detailed analysis of the evidence from three studies of dictionary use in writing exams. The presentation and discussion of these studies is prefaced by a clear and highly readable account of the methodological issues involved (p. 38–41). East&amp;#x27;s subjects are intermediate and upper intermediate learners of German in New Zealand, with English as ...

Piotr Muldner-Nieckowski. Frazeologia poszerzona: Studium leksykograficzne

International Journal of Lexicography, 2008

Extended phraseology: A lexicographic study is an English rendition of the title of the book unde... more Extended phraseology: A lexicographic study is an English rendition of the title of the book under review. As the subtitle would suggest, the book has much to interest lexicographers, but, what is less obvious from the title, it is also a lexicological study. The work has developed along with the author&amp;#x27;s lexicographic project resulting in the production of two modern phraseological dictionaries of Polish (Muldner-Nieckowski 2003; Muldner-Nieckowski and Muldner-Nieckowski 2004). The author has actively contributed to nearly ...

Review: Wielki slownik frazeologiczny jezyka polskiego

International Journal of Lexicography, 2005

Wielki siownik frazeologiczny je zyka polskiego consists of 30 pages of front matter, 940 pages o... more Wielki siownik frazeologiczny je zyka polskiego consists of 30 pages of front matter, 940 pages of the dictionary proper, and a 118-page index. According to the publisher, it includes 38,000 articles covering 200,000 expressions and phrases. In line with modern lexicographic practice, the front matter begins with a helpful illustrated two-page guide showing how to find and interpret lexicographic information included in the dictionary.

Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak. Phonetics of EFL Dictionary Definitions

International Journal of Lexicography, 2009

The book begins with a well-argued observation that while the pedagogical lexicographic definitio... more The book begins with a well-argued observation that while the pedagogical lexicographic definition is receiving a lot of attention and undergoing significant changes in the areas of vocabulary and syntax, the phonetic aspects have remained largely neglected. And yet, there is evidence pointing to the positive role of phonetic simplicity in vocabulary acquisition. In much of the book, Sobkowiak attempts to make up for this phonetic neglect. To this end, he utilizes two important tools: 1. an electronic word-list created from the machine- ...

From paper to electronic dictionaries: Evolving dictionary skills

Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Polish with CD-ROM: Słownik Angielsko-Polski

Longman słownik współczesny angielsko-polski, polsko-angielski

by Arleta Adamska-Sałaciak, Michał Jankowski, and Robert Lew

ColloCaid: A Real-time Tool to Help Academic Writers with English Collocations

Writing is a cognitively challenging activity that can benefit from lexicographic support. Academ... more Writing is a cognitively challenging activity that can benefit from lexicographic support. Academic writing in English presents a particular challenge, given the extent of use of English for this purpose. The ColloCaid tool, currently under development, responds to this challenge. It is intended to assist academic English writers by providing collocation suggestions, as well as alerting writers to unconventional collocations choices as they write. The underlying collocational data are based on a carefully curated set of about 500 collocational bases (nouns, verbs, and adjectives) characteristic of Academic English, and their collocates with illustrative examples. These data have been derived from state-of-the-art corpora of academic English and academic vocabulary lists. The manual curation by expert lexicographers and reliance on specifically Academic English textual resources are what distinguishes ColloCaid from existing collocational resources. A further characteristic of ColloCaid is its strong emphasis on usability. The tool draws on dictionary-user research, findings in information visualization, as well as usability testing specific to ColloCaid in order to find an optimal amount of collocation prompts, and the best way to present them to the user.

Słownik widziany oczyma użytkowników, czyli okulografia w leksykografii

W ramach wykładu przedstawię możliwości okulografii, czyli techniki śledzenia ruchu gałek ocznych... more W ramach wykładu przedstawię możliwości okulografii, czyli techniki śledzenia ruchu gałek ocznych, w badaniu zachowań użytkowników słowników. Po krótkim wprowadzeniu przedstawię wyniki niedawnych badań własnych z wykorzystaniem tej techniki, w szczególności badania nad podziałem uwagi wzrokowej w lekturze haseł słownikowych ilustrowanych graficznie.

Not the word I wanted? How online English learners' dictionaries deal with misspelled words

Online dictionary skills

Online English Learners' Dictionaries and Misspellings: One Year On

by Robert Lew and Roger Mitton

International Journal of Lexicography, 2013

Not the word I wanted? How online English learners' dictionaries deal with misspelled words

by Robert Lew and Roger Mitton

Proceedings of eLex, 2011

This study looks at how well the leading monolingual English learners' dictionaries in their... more This study looks at how well the leading monolingual English learners' dictionaries in their online versions cope with misspelled words as search terms. Six such dictionaries are tested on a corpus of misspellings produced by Polish, Japanese, and Finnish learners of English. The performance of the dictionaries varies widely, but is in general poor. For a large proportion of cases, dictionaries fail to supply the intended word, and when they do, they do not place it at the top of the list of suggested alternatives. We attempt to identify ...

Do menus provide added value to signposts in monolingual dictionary entries?

by Bartosz Ptasznik and Robert Lew

Dictionary Users in the Digital Revolution

by Robert Lew and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver

International Journal of Lexicography, 2014

This contribution examines the digital revolution in lexicography from the perspective of the dic... more This contribution examines the digital revolution in lexicography from the perspective of the dictionary user. We begin with an observation that in the information age the status of the dictionary is changing, and so are patterns of user behaviour, with general internet search engines encroaching on the grounds traditionally reserved for lexicographic queries. Clearly, we need to know more about user behaviour in the digital environment, and for this we need to harness user research, to find out how the increasingly flexible and adaptive lexical reference tools of the future need to behave to best accommodate user needs. We summarize the existing findings and show in what ways digital dictionaries are already able to serve users better than their paper predecessors. The challenge to produce efficient and effective dictionaries is best seen in the context of dictionary users’ reference skills, which now tend to overlap with digital literacy. We conclude with a possible vision of the future.

Non-standard dictionary definitions: What they cannot tell native speakers of Polish

Cadernos de Traduçao, 2006

Longman słownik współczesny angielsko-polski, polsko-angielski

by Jacek Fisiak and Robert Lew

Review: G.-M. de Schryver (Editor). A Way with Words: Recent Advances in Lexical Theory and Analysis: A Festschrift for Patrick Hanks

Lexikos, Dec 13, 2010

Review: G.-M. de Schryver (Editor): <i>A Way with Words: Recent Advances 757 in Lexical The... more

The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography

ELT Journal, 2009

And so, in the first of three major parts of the Guide, titled &amp;amp;#x27;Pre-lexicography... more And so, in the first of three major parts of the Guide, titled &amp;amp;#x27;Pre-lexicography&amp;amp;#x27;, we are introduced to the primary source of evidence for modern dictionaries: large electronic text corpora. The authors skillfully present numerous practical issues in the acquisition of texts, including the impact of structure on the usefulness of corpora. We learn that not all corpora are made equal, discover the advantages and disadvantages of building corpora from the Web (as against more traditional corpora), and are told that the advantages now outweigh ...

Herbert Andreas Welker. O Uso de dicionarios: Panorama geral das pesquisas empiricas

International Journal of Lexicography, 2007

The work under review presents a comprehensive overview of the existing empirical research on dic... more The work under review presents a comprehensive overview of the existing empirical research on dictionary use. The main body of the book offers summaries of 220 individual studies, an average summary amounting to about a page and half, and thus quite substantial. The summaries have all been written by the author, and most are based on his first-hand reading of the original works. A minority of the summaries (I have counted 40 of these) are based on second-hand reports by one or more other authors, and these ...

Martin East. Dictionary Use in Foreign Language Writing Exams: Impact and Implications

International Journal of Lexicography, 2009

The overarching issue that Martin East tackles in his new book is whether dictionaries should be ... more The overarching issue that Martin East tackles in his new book is whether dictionaries should be allowed in writing exams in the foreign language. The larger part of the book is taken up by a detailed analysis of the evidence from three studies of dictionary use in writing exams. The presentation and discussion of these studies is prefaced by a clear and highly readable account of the methodological issues involved (p. 38–41). East&amp;#x27;s subjects are intermediate and upper intermediate learners of German in New Zealand, with English as ...

Piotr Muldner-Nieckowski. Frazeologia poszerzona: Studium leksykograficzne

International Journal of Lexicography, 2008

Extended phraseology: A lexicographic study is an English rendition of the title of the book unde... more Extended phraseology: A lexicographic study is an English rendition of the title of the book under review. As the subtitle would suggest, the book has much to interest lexicographers, but, what is less obvious from the title, it is also a lexicological study. The work has developed along with the author&amp;#x27;s lexicographic project resulting in the production of two modern phraseological dictionaries of Polish (Muldner-Nieckowski 2003; Muldner-Nieckowski and Muldner-Nieckowski 2004). The author has actively contributed to nearly ...

Review: Wielki slownik frazeologiczny jezyka polskiego

International Journal of Lexicography, 2005

Wielki siownik frazeologiczny je zyka polskiego consists of 30 pages of front matter, 940 pages o... more Wielki siownik frazeologiczny je zyka polskiego consists of 30 pages of front matter, 940 pages of the dictionary proper, and a 118-page index. According to the publisher, it includes 38,000 articles covering 200,000 expressions and phrases. In line with modern lexicographic practice, the front matter begins with a helpful illustrated two-page guide showing how to find and interpret lexicographic information included in the dictionary.

Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak. Phonetics of EFL Dictionary Definitions

International Journal of Lexicography, 2009

The book begins with a well-argued observation that while the pedagogical lexicographic definitio... more The book begins with a well-argued observation that while the pedagogical lexicographic definition is receiving a lot of attention and undergoing significant changes in the areas of vocabulary and syntax, the phonetic aspects have remained largely neglected. And yet, there is evidence pointing to the positive role of phonetic simplicity in vocabulary acquisition. In much of the book, Sobkowiak attempts to make up for this phonetic neglect. To this end, he utilizes two important tools: 1. an electronic word-list created from the machine- ...

From paper to electronic dictionaries: Evolving dictionary skills

Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Polish with CD-ROM: Słownik Angielsko-Polski

Longman słownik współczesny angielsko-polski, polsko-angielski

by Arleta Adamska-Sałaciak, Michał Jankowski, and Robert Lew

THE IMAGE OF THE MONOLINGUAL DICTIONARY ACROSS EUROPE. RESULTS OF THE EUROPEAN SURVEY OF DICTIONARY USE AND CULTURE

by Snezana Petrovic and Robert Lew

International Journal of Lexicography, 2018

The article presents the results of a survey on dictionary use in Europe, focusing on general mon... more The article presents the results of a survey on dictionary use in Europe, focusing on
general monolingual dictionaries. The survey is the broadest survey of dictionary
use to date, covering close to 10,000 dictionary users (and non-users) in nearly thirty
countries. Our survey covers varied user groups, going beyond the students and
translators who have tended to dominate such studies thus far. The survey was
delivered via an online survey platform, in language versions specific to each target
country. It was completed by 9,562 respondents, over 300 respondents per country
on average. The survey consisted of the general section, which was translated and
presented to all participants, as well as country-specific sections for a subset of 11
countries, which were drafted by collaborators at the national level. The present report covers the general section.

The Relationship Between Dictionary Look-up Frequency and Corpus Frequency Revisited: A Log-File Analysis of a Decade of User Interaction with a Swahili-English Dictionary

by Gilles-Maurice de Schryver and Robert Lew

GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies, Nov 27, 2019

In an earlier publication it was claimed that there is no useful relationship between Swahili-Eng... more In an earlier publication it was claimed that there is no useful relationship between Swahili-English dictionary look-up frequencies and the occurrence frequencies for the same wordforms in Swahili-English corpora, at least not beyond the top few thousand wordforms. This result was challenged using data for German by a different team of researchers using an improved methodology. In the present article the original Swahili-English data is revisited, using ten years’ worth of it rather than just two, and using the improved methodology. We conclude that there is indeed a positive relationship. In addition, we show that online dictionary look-up behaviour is remarkably similar across languages, even when, as in our case, one is dealing with languages from very dissimilar language families. Furthermore, online dictionaries turn out to have minimum look-up success rates, below which they simply cannot go. These minima are language-sensitive and vary depending on the regularity of the searched-for entries, but are otherwise constant no matter the size of randomly sampled dictionaries. Corpus-informed sampling always improves on any random method. Lastly, from the point of view of the graphical user interface, we argue that the average user of an online bilingual dictionary is better served with a single search box, rather than separate search boxes for each dictionary side.

Developing a writing assistant to help EAP writers with collocations in real time

by Robert Lew and Ana Frankenberg-Garcia

Corpora have given rise to a wide range of lexicographic resources aimed at helping novice users ... more Corpora have given rise to a wide range of lexicographic resources aimed at helping novice users of academic English with their writing. This includes academic vocabulary lists, a variety of textbooks, and even a bespoke academic English dictionary. However, writers may not be familiar with these resources or may not be sufficiently aware of the lexical shortcomings of their emerging texts to trigger the need to use such help in the first place. Moreover, writers who have to stop writing to look up a word can be distracted from getting their ideas down on paper. The ColloCaid project (www.collocaid.uk) aims to address these problems by integrating information on collocation with text editors. In this paper, we share the research underpinning the initial development of ColloCaid by detailing the rationale of (1) the lexicographic database we are compiling to support the collocation needs of novice users of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and (2) the preliminary visualisation decisions taken to present information on collocation to EAP users without disrupting their writing. We conclude the paper by outlining the next steps in the research.

Eine europaweite Umfrage zu Wörterbuchbenutzung und -kultur. Ergebnisse der deutschen Teilnehmenden

by Robert Lew and Iztok Kosem

Dowcip językowy w świetle najnowszych językoznawczych teorii humoru [The linguistic joke in the light of current linguistic theories of humour]

Stylistyka IX, 2000

An ambiguity-based theory of the linguistic verbal joke in English

The dissertation analyzes the role of linguistic ambiguity in canned linguistic verbal jokes in E... more The dissertation analyzes the role of linguistic ambiguity in canned linguistic verbal jokes in English. A typology of jokes based on the type of ambiguity underlying the joke is proposed. It is claimed that jokes based on ambiguity contain purposeful textual devices (ambiguators) enhancing the probability of both semantic interpretations being perceived by the recipient.

Towards a taxonomy of linguistic jokes

Abstract A classification system for linguistic jokes is proposed:(1) verbal,(2) syntactic,(3) ph... more Abstract A classification system for linguistic jokes is proposed:(1) verbal,(2) syntactic,(3) phonological,(4) orthographic,(5) deicitc reference,(6) specific vs nonspecific interpretation,(7) pragmatic ambiguity,(8) type of modality, & (9) multiple ambiguity. Under (3), it is noted that dialect differences can contribute to the relative success or failure of these jokes. In discussing (4), it is noted that this type may increase in popularity, due primarily to the pervasiveness of electronic communication & Internet access.

Ambiguity-generating devices in linguistic verbal jokes

Exploitation of linguistic ambiguity in Polish and English jokes

The existence of linguistic humour and linguistic jokes as distinct categories of humour and joke... more The existence of linguistic humour and linguistic jokes as distinct categories of humour and jokes respectively has been recognized by a number of authors:(Hockett (1972) uses the term" poetic jokes"; Shultz and Horibe (1974); Shultz and Robillard (1980); Frumusani (1986: 511); Spector (1990)). Other authors (notably Raskin (1987: 11-14)) have called into question the legitimacy of distinguishing linguistic jokes as a special type of jokes. Raskin (1987) claims that all jokes are, in fact, linguistic.

Using power analysis to estimate appropriate sample size

by Maciej Tomczak, Ewa Tomczak, and Robert Lew

The main aim of this paper is to provide some practical guidance to researchers on how statistica... more The main aim of this paper is to provide some practical guidance to researchers on how statistical power analysis can be used to estimate sample size in empirical design. The paper describes the key assumptions underlying statistical power analysis and illustrates through several examples how to determine the appropriate sample size. The examples use hypotheses often tested in sport sciences and verified with popular statistical tests including the independent-samples t-test, one-way and twoway analysis of variance (ANOVA), correlation analysis, and regression analysis. Commonly used statistical packages allow researchers to determine appropriate sample size for hypothesis testing situations listed above.

Corpus-based vocabulary lists for language learners for nine languages

by Elena Volodina, Saussan Khalil, Robert Lew, and Sofie Johansson

We present the KELLY project and its work on developing monolingual and bilingual word lists for ... more We present the KELLY project and its work on developing monolingual and bilingual word lists for language learning, using corpus methods, for nine languages and thirty-six language pairs. We describe the method and discuss the many challenges encountered. We have loaded the data into an online database to make it accessible for anyone to explore and we present our own first explorations of it. The focus of the paper is thus twofold, covering pedagogical and methodological aspects of the lists’ construction, and linguistic aspects of the by-product of the project, the KELLY database.

Corpus-based vocabulary lists for language learners for nine languages

by Elena Volodina, Robert Lew, and Saussan Khalil

We present the KELLY project and its work on developing monolingual and bilingual word lists for ... more We present the KELLY project and its work on developing monolingual and bilingual word lists for language learning, using corpus methods, for nine languages and thirty-six language pairs. We describe the method and discuss the many challenges encountered. We have loaded the data into an online database to make it accessible for anyone to explore and we present our own first explorations of it. The focus of the paper is thus twofold, covering pedagogical and methodological aspects of the lists’ construction, and linguistic aspects of the by-product of the project, the KELLY database.

Corpus-based vocabulary lists for language learners for nine languages

by Saussan Khalil, Sofie Johansson, Elena Volodina, and Robert Lew

Language Resources and Evaluation, Sep 2013

We present the KELLY project and its work on developing monolingual and bilingual word lists for ... more We present the KELLY project and its work on developing monolingual and bilingual word lists for language learning, using corpus methods, for nine languages and thirty-six language pairs. We describe the method and discuss the many challenges encountered. We have loaded the data into an online database to make it accessible for anyone to explore and we present our own first explorations of it. The focus of the paper is thus twofold, covering pedagogical and methodo- logical aspects of the lists’ construction, and linguistic aspects of the by-product of the project, the KELLY database.

Corpus-based vocabulary lists for language learners for nine languages

by Elena Volodina, Sofie Johansson, Saussan Khalil, and Robert Lew

We present the KELLY project and its work on developing monolingual and bilingual word lists for ... more We present the KELLY project and its work on developing monolingual and bilingual word lists for language learning, using corpus methods, for nine languages and thirty-six language pairs. We describe the method and discuss the many challenges encountered. We have loaded the data into an online database to make it accessible for anyone to explore and we present our own first explorations of it. The focus of the paper is thus twofold, covering pedagogical and methodological aspects of the lists’ construction, and linguistic aspects of the by-product of the project, the KELLY database.

Corpus-based vocabulary lists for language learners for nine languages

by Maria Gavrilidou, Robert Lew, Sofie Johansson, and Elena Volodina

Language Resources and Evaluation, 2014

The Web as corpus versus traditional corpora: Their relative utility for linguists and language learners

Abstract The paper compares systematically the utility of specially-made text corpora and the tex... more Abstract The paper compares systematically the utility of specially-made text corpora and the textual resources of the World Wide Web for linguists and language learners. Different modes of access are discussed, including via dedicated concordancing software, web-concordancing and the universal search engine.

Polish word sketches

Word sketches are one-page automatic, corpus-based summaries of a word's grammatical and collocat... more Word sketches are one-page automatic, corpus-based summaries of a word's grammatical and collocational behaviour. They were first used in the production of the Macmillan English Dictionary (Rundell 2002). At that point, word sketches only existed for English. Today, the Sketch Engine is available, a corpus tool which takes as input a corpus of any language and corresponding grammar patterns and which generates word sketches for the words of that language.

Corpus-Based Vocabulary lists for Language Learners for Nine Languages

by Saussan Khalil, Robert Lew, Sofie Johansson, and Elena Volodina

Abstract We present the Kelly project, and its work on developing word lists, monolingual and bil... more Abstract We present the Kelly project, and its work on developing word lists, monolingual and bilingual, for language learning, using corpus methods, for nine languages and thirty-six language pairs. We describe the method in some detail and discuss the many challenges encountered. We have loaded the data into an online database and made it accessible for anyone to explore: we present our own first explorations of it.

Incorporating research-based teaching techniques in e-learning to teach English articles

This article presents evidence about research-based teaching techniques that aided making the e-l... more This article presents evidence about research-based teaching techniques that aided making the e-learning tool designed for this research more effective than traditional teaching methods when teaching English articles (e.g. ‘a’, ‘an’, and ‘the’). The techniques employed were: Master’s binary schema, explicit instruction, chunking, and direct feedback. Master’s binary schema (Master 1988, 2003) is an easy-to-grasp and detailed method of teaching English articles. Explicit instruction is the provision of clear and simple instruction of specific target structures (Troia & Graham 2002); in this study, the focus is on English articles. Chunking is the splitting of longer instructions into smaller segments for easier processing (Coufal 2002). Direct feedback for written texts is when responses are placed above, below, or near the inappropriate target structure to guide students towards appropriate use of structures (Bitchener & Knoch 2010). The main study results strongly indicated that the e-learning tool was more effective than the traditional teaching techniques employed in this study. For the overall results by stage and group, the e-learning group achieved significantly better results than the control group. The main study results provide valuable quantitative evidence about the research based teaching techniques incorporated into the e-learning tool for English article usage teaching and for the effectiveness of e-learning in the English grammatical structure teaching.

Discussion Results -- Lexicography and variation: big data via Google

by Robert Lew and Stefan Dollinger

A summary of the academia.edu discussion to be found here: https://www.academia.edu/s/1a487c74ab

"The Song of Words": Teaching Multi-Word Units with Songs

by Ewa Tomczak and Robert Lew

The need to integrate songs into English Language Teaching (ELT) has been recognized on numerous ... more The need to integrate songs into English Language Teaching (ELT) has been recognized on numerous occasions. Song lyrics host multi-word units which learners can reuse as building blocks in their English, thereby reducing language processing time and effort, and improving their fluency as well as idiomaticity, thus bringing them closer to the native speaker norm. We report on two studies into the effectiveness of using songs for teaching multi-word units to high-school Polish learners of English. The same items were taught to two groups of EFL learners, but only one of the groups heard them in a song. Learners’ vocabulary recall was measured at three points in time relative to the teaching: before, immediately after, and a week after. The group taught with songs showed a significant recall advantage over the other group, especially when tested a week from teaching. The results suggest that songs can be an effective vehicle for teaching English multi-word units.

Francis Katamba, An Introduction to Phonology. Harlow, Essex: Longman. 1989. ISBN 0-582-29150-X.£ 9.95 Pb. Pp xvi+ 328.

by Piotr Gąsiorowski and Robert Lew

Review

Differences in the scope of obstruent voicing assimilation in learners' English as a consequence of regional variation in Polish

The question of what factors, and to what extent, shape the phonetic performance of second langua... more The question of what factors, and to what extent, shape the phonetic performance of second language learners has been the subject of much debate (see for instance Ioup & Weinberger 1987 or James & Leather 1987). One factor whose importance has remained, and is likely to remain, relatively unchallenged is the influence of the sound system of learners' native language.

For Stefan Dollinger: chip wagon and book phone

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ColloCaid: A Real-time Tool to Help Academic Writers with English Collocations

by Robert Lew, Geraint P Rees, and Jonathan Roberts

XVIII EURALEX International Congress, 2018

Developing a writing assistant to help EAP writers with collocations in real time

by Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, Robert Lew, Jonathan Roberts, and Geraint P Rees

ReCall, 2019

Multiple Views: different meanings and collocated words

by Geraint P Rees, Jonathan Roberts, and Robert Lew

Computer Graphics Forum, 2019

Abstract We report on an in-depth corpus linguistic study on ‘multiple views’ terminology and wor... more Abstract We report on an in-depth corpus linguistic study on ‘multiple views’ terminology and word collocation. We take a broad interpretation of these terms, and explore the meaning and diversity of their use in visualisation literature. First we explore senses of the term ‘multiple views’ (e.g., ‘multiple views’ can mean juxtaposition, many viewport projections or several alternative opinions). Second, we investigate term popularity and frequency of occurrences, investigating usage of ‘multiple’ and ‘view’ (e.g., multiple views, multiple visualisations, multiple sets). Third, we investigate word collocations and terms that have a similar sense (e.g., multiple views, side-by-side, small multiples). We built and used several corpora, including a 6-million-word corpus of all IEEE Visualisation conference articles published in IEEE Transactions on Visualisation and Computer Graphics 2012 to 2017. We draw on our substantial experience from early work in coordinated and multiple views, and with collocation analysis develop several lists of terms. This research provides insight into term use, a reference for novice and expert authors in visualisation, and contributes a taxonomy of ‘multiple view’ terms.

ColloCaid: a tool to help academic English writers find the words they need

by Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, Geraint P Rees, Robert Lew, and Jonathan Roberts

CALL and complexity – short papers from EUROCALL 2019, 2019

Manifesto sprint on biocultural diversity: an experimental approach to knowledge co-creation, discourse design and collaborative writing

by Albin Wagener and Robert Lew

Cogents Arts & Humanities, 2022

New methodological and co-creation approaches are needed in Digital Humanities (DH) for cross-dis... more New methodological and co-creation approaches are needed in Digital Humanities (DH) for cross-disciplinary collaboration oriented to sustainability. More specifically—in the context of Environmental Humanities and regarding biocultural diversity—a key challenge is to set effective and engaging ways of rapid knowledge generation for public awareness and policy-making. According to the 2019 United Nations report on biodiversity, the world will lose one million species in the upcoming years. In parallel, it is acknowledged that the degradation of biological diversity also threatens cultural and linguistic diversity, as declared by UNESCO. In an attempt to contribute to knowledge safeguarding this diversity, a hybrid approach combining the tradition of participatory design with DH tools and with the collaboration of a variety of scholars and stakeholders, has resulted in the co-creation of a manifesto on “biodiversity in connection with linguistic and cultural diversity”. We outline the design thinking methodology applied for this experimental case study, and in parallel apply software-aided discourse analysis of the manifesto co-writing process—from a “sprint” collaborative writing format to an online publication, moving from a face-to-face context into digital collaboration channels. Results highlight the importance of facilitation, flexibility and adequate ways of visualization “in progress” (via analogue materials and DH tools) during the co-writing sprint process, as well as the need to set basic co-creation protocols in such transdisciplinary context, considering synchronous and asynchronous collaboration. We discuss the importance of advancing between DH and sustainability-driven experimental co-creation, connecting practices with opportunities to develop collaborative writing and knowledge generation in the margins of academic settings.

Review of Katamba, Francis. 1989. An introduction to phonology

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

Using power analysis to estimate appropriate sample size

The main aim of this paper is to provide some practical guidance to researchers on how statistica... more The main aim of this paper is to provide some practical guidance to researchers on how statistical power analysis can be used to estimate sample size in empirical design. The paper describes the key assumptions underlying statistical power analysis and illustrates through several examples how to determine the appropriate sample size. The examples use hypotheses often tested in sport sciences and verified with popular statistical tests including the independent-samples t-test, one-way and two- way analysis of variance (ANOVA), correlation analysis, and regression analysis. Commonly used statistical packages allow researchers to determine a sample size for hypothesis testing situations listed above.

Longman słownik współczesny angielsko-polski, polsko-angielski