How can a corpus be used to explore patterns?

Adolphs, Svenja; Knight, Dawn

doi:10.4324/9780203856949-12

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“…In regards to task preference, although users could be distinguished on the basis of a preference for looking for repeated information or not, it accounted for the smallest amount of variance amongst the factors identified. It is perhaps surprising that this factor did not converge with citation order preference or citation format preference given that these two preference types are strongly associated in the literature with the identification of patterns of lexical occurrence (Barlow, 2004;Gilquin & Granger, 2010;Hunston, 2002Hunston, , 2010Sinclair, 1991;Tribble, 2010).…”

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“…Respondents' concordancing preferences were distinguishable in relation to citation formatting preference, corpus type preference, citation order preference and task preference, although it should be remembered that citation formatting preference and citation ordering preference were partially correlated. Correlation between these two factors is not particularly surprising given the observation that ordering citations by cotext facilitates observation of patterns of lexical co-occurrence (Hunston, 2010;Sinclair, 1991;Tribble, 2010), and that KWIC formatting can make patterns of lexical co-occurrence visible via the creation of spatially meaningful relationships between citations. However, as these two factors did not converge to form a single factor, if we accept the idea that concordance users' preferences will be related to affordances, then this also indicates that KWIC format concordances may still provide users affordances when ordered by the texts citations come from.…”

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“…That is, the pattern observation affordances of concordances are derived from the capacity for concordancers to present citations in display formats that visually highlight such patterns and so do not require regularities to be discovered via cognitive processes of interrogation while, in contrast, the conscious processes of data-driven learning can be used to find semantic regularities that might not be particularly visually salient: for example, co-occurrence with a particular word having a particular semantic prosody. Thus, pattern observation affordances are distinguishable from data-driven learning affordances and, furthermore, it is these observability of patterns affordances that are strongly identified with the key word in context (KWIC) format of displaying concordances (Barlow, 2004;Gilquin & Granger, 2010;Hunston, 2002Hunston, , 2010Sinclair, 1991;Tribble, 2010).…”

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“…The extremely pronounced negative loading of bilingual concordance use, the main contrast with the other categories of 1 st and 2 nd language concordance use, is not surprising given that bilingual concordances emphasise comparison between citations from different corpora, not between citations within a concordance of a single corpus. As discussed in Chapter 2, ordering citations alphabetically by positions in a concordance's cotext is thought to highlight patterns of co-occurrence within a single concordance (Aston, 2001;Charles, 2012;Hunston, 2010;Johns, 1986Johns, , 1991bLevy, 1990;Partington, 2001;Sinclair, 1991Sinclair, , 2004Tono et al, 2014;Tribble, 2010), not to facilitate comparison of two separate concordances as presented in a bilingual concordance. Furthermore, because translation equivalents are often realised at the sentence or discourse level and not always at the word level (Kenning, 2010;Kübler & Aston, 2010), it is not surprising that bilingual concordance users might prefer non-KWIC citation formats that present larger spans of cotext.…”

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<p>Language learner use of concordances attracts considerable research interest. Concordances are now being conceptualized as presenting language learners with multiple affordances (Leńko-Szymańska & Boulton, 2015), affordances being the latent value of an object determined by the use made of it and not necessarily by its design. However, empirical research has typically operationalized concordances in simple, monolithic terms, and thus, from an experimental design perspective, they are implicitly seen as providing a single set of language learning affordances. That is, the majority of research conducted on concordancing treatments is discussed in terms of concordancing in fairly simple undifferentiated terms (see overviews of research in Boulton, 2010a; Cobb & Boulton, 2015; C. Yoon, 2011). Thus, previous research has contributed to an understanding of whether concordances can facilitate language learning, but it has rarely addressed the issue of how the operationalisation of concordances in pedagogical contexts interacts with the language learning affordances provided. Insufficient engagement with this issue is important because, alongside studies that have shown strong facilitative effects, there are many studies of learner use of concordances that show little to no facilitative effect of the concordancing condition. To address this issue, this thesis addresses the construct of learner use of concordances from an experiment design perspective, helping to define the construct of concordancing and examining potential variables in learner use of concordances. The thesis reports a series of studies that examine the construct of concordancing from both the perspective of concordance users’ concordancing preferences and the perspective of the lexical qualities of concordances as texts. First, a quasi-experimental, quantitative survey of concordance users’ concordancing preferences showed the construct of concordancing to comprise four distinguishable operational parameters: citation format, type of corpus concordanced, citation order and reading style. It then found correlations between these parameters and three of four user groupings: grouping by frequency of concordance use, by linguistic relationship to concordance language, and by field of concordance use. It revealed that different types of concordance user can be characterized by preferences for different types of concordance use, and vice versa. In two further studies, quantitative analysis of concordances showed that manipulation of factors in concordance generation resulted in concordances with significant differences in measures of word frequency and type token ratio. These analyses showed the extent to which the affordances of concordances vary in relation to two key factors in concordance generation: which corpus is concordanced and level of corpus generality. The findings of these four studies are discussed in relation to the definition of concordancing presented in Chapter 2 of the thesis and the affordances of concordances that have been discussed in the literature. Together the findings indicate that effective learner use of concordances is likely to be dependent on matching the operationalization of concordancing in pedagogical contexts to learner profiles. For this reason, research on learner use of concordances needs to adopt experimental designs that can account for variation in concordancing as a treatment condition. The findings are also discussed in relation to their practical implications for effectively operationalising concordancing in pedagogical practice and the development of pedagogical concordancers and concordance-based language learning materials.</p>

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“…Chapter 5). The relationship between lexical repetition and opportunities for a learner to observe lexical patterns is then discussed: a potential affordance of concordances that has attracted much research interest (Barlow, 2004;Gilquin & Granger, 2010;Hunston, 2002Hunston, , 2010Sinclair, 1991;Tribble, 2010). Indeed, lexical repetition can be thought of as underlying many of the repeated features in concordances that concordance users may be interested in and, as such, can be thought of as underlying the looking for repetition task preferences identified in Chapters 3 and 4.…”

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