Cambridge Core - Research Methods in Linguistics - Statistical Modeling for (Actual) Hypothesis Testing

Lexical diversity (LD) has been shown to be a strong predictor of second language (L2) proficiency. However, most current indices combine all word classes into a single measure and thus only capture ...

Lexical diversity (LD) has been shown to be a strong predictor of second language (L2) proficiency. However, most current indices combine all word classes into a single measure and thus only capture ....

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Foreign/second language (L2) learners worldwide are increasingly exposed to English outside the classroom through self-initiated, extramural English (…

Mentoring ethically reflexive quantitative researchers in applied linguistics

Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Applications of Corpus Linguistics

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From an ethical standpoint, it is important that we ensure that our sampling procedures allow us to make generalizations about the populations we wish…

Two recent studies (Biber, Douglas, Larsson Tove & Gregory R. Hancock. 2024a. The linguistic organization of grammatical text complexity: Comparing the empirical adequacy of theory-based models. C...

PDF | Tests in the null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) framework are designed to identify differences between groups. Thus, researchers wishing... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

Welcome to the thirteenth international Corpus Linguistics conference (CL2025), co-organised by Aston University, Birmingham City University and the University of Birmingham. CL2025 will take place fr...

This paper introduces the Swedish Learner English Corpus (slec), which consists of argumentative texts in English that are written by Swedish junior and senior high school students. slec includes rich...

This study investigates (i) whether there has been a shift towards increased statistical focus in corpus linguistic research articles, and, if so, (ii) whether this has had any repercussions for the a...

To mark the end of a Hoover Seedfund collaborative project between the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Department of English at Northern Arizona ...

PDF | It is not always clear how a cumulative knowledge mindset can permeate the normal primary research studies that we do. That is, both secondary... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...