The Toledo Teacher Trainees corpus (TTT): Bridging the gap between students’ narratives and corpus linguistics

construction and validation of the translation teacher competency test and the scale of students’ perceptions of translation teachers

the major purpose of this study was to develop the translation teacher competency test (ttct) and examine its construct and predictive validity. the present study was conducted in two phases: a qualitative phase as well as a quantitative phase. in the first phase of the study, the author attempted to find out the major areas of competency required for an academic translation teacher. the second...

Lexicography and Corpus Linguistics

GATE: Bridging the Gap between Terminology and Linguistics

One of the current problems many terminologists face is the lack of suitable tools to process their data. In particular, since needs differ widely, general and robust tools are required that can be adapted to different language processing tasks and even languages. GATE is an open source architecture for language engineering, developed by the University of Sheffield and used worldwide by thousan...

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...

Corpus Linguistics: Quantitative Methods

p. 1, par. 2: Until relatively recently, however, words and syntactic patterns, or constructions, were treated on a par not only theoretically, but also empirically. → It is only since recently, however, that words and syntactic patterns, or constructions, are treated on a par not only theoretically, but also empirically. p. 1, first bullet: how much does give prefer to occur in the ditransitiv...