This special issue of Linguistics and the Human Sciences offers a collection of original contributions to the study of languages in contrast from discourse, corpus, and functional perspectives. The papers were presented at the Sixth International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics, held in Berlin 29 September–3 October 2010, in the context of two panels: ‘Discourse analysis and contrastive l...

The present study was an attempt to investigate the washback effect of the TEFL MA University Entrance Exam on the teaching and learning behaviors of students and professors. The TEFL MA UEE consists of three sub-components that deal with particular aspects of applied linguistics; each of these parts measures the participants’ knowledge in linguistics, language testing, and teaching methodology...

Introduction The paper addresses the issue of cooperation between linguistics and natural language processing (NLP), in general, and between linguistics and machine translation (MT), in particular. It focuses on just one direction of such cooperation, namely applications of linguistics to NLP, virtually ignoring for now any possible applications of NLP to linguistics, which can range from provi...

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Corpus Linguistics is one of the fastest emerging language teaching methods in modern applied linguistics. Several studies have been carried out to study the effectiveness of using Corpus Linguistics to comprehend the dynamics of language learning and to harness the benefits of learning a language though corpus based approach. This paper examines some of the significant studies on Corpus Lingui...