Description
During the last four decades, a corpus-based approach to language teaching has become very significant. Direct use of corpora in language pedagogy is limited by certain factors: time, the lecturer’s knowledge and skills needed to analyze the corpus, access to sources such as computers and appropriate computer tools, or a combination of these factors. The key to a successful corpus-based approach is in the appropriate level of the lecturer’s guidance or pedagogical mediation, which depends on student age, experience, and prior knowledge. It is therefore very important that lecturers be equipped with the necessary knowledge and education for using and analyzing corpora on a daily basis.
Computer Corpora and Open Source Software for Language Learning: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a cutting-edge research publication that analyzes teacher experiences in implementing computer corpora into their language learning classrooms in order to formulate additional insights as to best strategies for integrating such tools that maximizes language learning efficiency in primary and secondary education. Highlighting topics such as ICT tools, language education, and linguistics, this book is ideal for academicians, educators, computer science teachers, IT professionals, researchers, and students.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Kristina Posavec
Kristina Posavec, originally from Zagreb, Croatia, has 12 years of experience in ICT education, primarily in long life adult education and university level education. Kristina currently works in Croatia as a lecturer of Computer Science at Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation, University of Zagreb and as IT project manager at University Computing Centre in Zagreb. She is actively participating in IT projects from HORIZON2020 (European Union scientific projects) were she is organizing, communicating, educating and writing about project activities and new technologies. In her line of work, she is closely working with primary and secondary schools, universities, professors, researchers and academia. She is actively involved in research projects, writing and reviewing scientific and research articles and presenting outcomes of the projects and researches on local and international conferences. Her main research interests are use of ICT in education, computer corpora, technology for language learning, assistive technologies, open science, digital competences, gamification, mobile learning, mixed and extended reality (VR and AR) used in education.