this study aimed to investigate the washback effect of three alternative assessment procedures, namely oral-conferences, portfolios, and corpora-based feedback on the writing achievement and attitudes of iranian efl university learners. the participants taking part in the study were 156 native iranian students in a mixed reading-writing course. through the two three-month semesters, the learner...

Abstract In this paper I use insights from exploratory analyses on large English language corpora to consider the extent which there is a widely used ordinary notion of justification that attaches beliefs. will show has ramifications for one broad approach theorising about – folk approach. argue corpus-based findings presented pose challenge insofar as they suggest “justify” not talk our conclu...

The spectrum of electronic corpora which are analysed within the field of corpus linguistics has increased remarkably since the publication of the Brown Corpus (Kucera and Francis, 1967). High efforts of digitizing print media or transcription of speech as well as the limitations of processing speed and storage space made early corpora considerably small in size. With increasing computer perfor...

The article at hand aggregates the work of our group in automatic processing simplified German. We present four parallel (standard/simplified German) corpora compiled and curated by group. report on creation a gold standard sentence alignments from sources for evaluating alignment methods this standard. show that one performs best majority data sources. used two as basis first sentence-based ne...