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In this episode, Ingrid Piller interviews David Palfreyman about his book on bilingual writers and corpus analysis.
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Professor David Palfreyman (United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain) about his 2023 book Bilingual writers and corpus analysis. Palfreyman, D. M., & Habash, N. (2023). Bilingual writers and corpus analysis. Routledge. Link here Bilingual writers and corpus analysis is one of the first to represent the usage of bilingual writers in both their languages, offering insight into language corpora as extremely valuable tools in contemporary applied linguistics research, and in turn, into how much of the world’s population operate daily. This book discusses one of the first examples of a bilingual writer corpus, the Zayed Arabic-English Bilingual Undergraduate Corpus (ZAEBUC), which includes writing by hundreds of students in two languages, with additional information about the writers and the texts. The result is a rich resource for research in multilingual use and learning of language. The book takes the reader through the design and use of such a corpus and illustrates the potential of this type of corpus with detailed studies that show how assessment, vocabulary, and discourse work across two very…
People in this episode
Host: Ingrid Piller
Guest: David Palfreyman
Topics covered
- bilingualism
- corpus analysis
- language education
- applied linguistics
- multilingualism
Keywords
- bilingual writers
- corpus analysis
- language corpora
- multilingual use
- language education
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: United Arab Emirates University, Routledge
Books & works: Bilingual writers and corpus analysis, Zayed Arabic-English Bilingual Undergraduate Corpus (ZAEBUC)
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