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Out now – new chapter on Quicklinks

We’re pleased to announce our latest output, ‘Exploiting corpora to provide guidance for academic writing’. This forms Chapter 1 of Corpora in ESP/EAP Writing Instruction: Preparation, Exploitation, Analysis, ably edited by Maggie Charles and Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, which includes write-ups of a number of papers given at the TALC 2018 Conference.

Our chapter explores examples of corpus outputs other than concordances which can be used to make Quicklinks, including word sketches and collocation lists. The abstract can be downloaded here.

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Quicklinks featured in Lextutor

Quicklinks users may well be already aware of Tom Cobb’s fantastic Lextutor site with its wide range of tools aimed at helping teachers and learners of English (with some features for other languages too. I’m a frequent user of the excellent Vocab profilers there and there are loads of other useful functions to discover.

One of these is ‘Corpus Grammar‘ which shows the approach outlined in Gaskell and Cobb (2004), a paper that was an inspiration for this project. As with Quicklinks, the idea is to provide learners with access to concordances to help them address issues in their writing – mostly these are grammatical issues such as the one shown below. In the screenshot you can see how the concordances listed below might help a learner who has written ask one of the girl if she can go with you to work out what is wrong and correct it (in the ‘Correction space’.

Tom has been good enough to provide a link to our 2018 open access paper there and a Quicklinks demo should be up soon. Hopefully this will help spread the word about DDL further.

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Quicklinks is now on Twitter

We’ve started a Twitter account for BAWE Quicklinks, @BQuicklinks to spread the word about Quicklinks and about DDL in general.

The account will feature regular tweets on specific links and how they were created. Please follow if you want to be kept up to date on developments in BAWE Quicklinks.