A corpus study of the conceptualization of learners in applied linguistics / Tan Ken Siang

The differing views on language learners across the relevant literature have been observed. With the observed changes in ideology in looking at language learners, it would be good to investigate how the applied linguistic research community varies over time, mainly in conceptualizing learners as the...

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第一著者: Tan , Ken Siang
フォーマット: 学位論文
出版事項: 2021
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description The differing views on language learners across the relevant literature have been observed. With the observed changes in ideology in looking at language learners, it would be good to investigate how the applied linguistic research community varies over time, mainly in conceptualizing learners as the focus of the disciplinary studies and discussions. Despite this interest, very little is known about how the change of views on learners has been portrayed in the Applied Linguistics field. How is the learner conceptualized in research articles in a period of 10 years of research in Applied Linguistics (from 1950-2016), and what are the changing views observed? Drawing on a corpus of 17.9 million words or 2655 articles taken from The Modern Language Journal, the study looks for answers to these questions to determine whether learners’ conceptualization has changed in Applied Linguistics over the past 60 years. This study presents and attempts to account for possible surprising variations and possible explanations for the observed variations during the period under study.
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spelling oai:studentsrepo.um.edu.my:153302024-11-07T23:23:24Z A corpus study of the conceptualization of learners in applied linguistics / Tan Ken Siang Tan , Ken Siang P Philology. Linguistics The differing views on language learners across the relevant literature have been observed. With the observed changes in ideology in looking at language learners, it would be good to investigate how the applied linguistic research community varies over time, mainly in conceptualizing learners as the focus of the disciplinary studies and discussions. Despite this interest, very little is known about how the change of views on learners has been portrayed in the Applied Linguistics field. How is the learner conceptualized in research articles in a period of 10 years of research in Applied Linguistics (from 1950-2016), and what are the changing views observed? Drawing on a corpus of 17.9 million words or 2655 articles taken from The Modern Language Journal, the study looks for answers to these questions to determine whether learners’ conceptualization has changed in Applied Linguistics over the past 60 years. This study presents and attempts to account for possible surprising variations and possible explanations for the observed variations during the period under study. 2021-03 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/15330/1/Tan_Ken_Siang.pdf application/pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/15330/2/Tan_Ken_Siang.pdf Tan , Ken Siang (2021) A corpus study of the conceptualization of learners in applied linguistics / Tan Ken Siang. Masters thesis, Universiti Malaya. http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/15330/
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A corpus study of the conceptualization of learners in applied linguistics / Tan Ken Siang
title A corpus study of the conceptualization of learners in applied linguistics / Tan Ken Siang
title_full A corpus study of the conceptualization of learners in applied linguistics / Tan Ken Siang
title_fullStr A corpus study of the conceptualization of learners in applied linguistics / Tan Ken Siang
title_full_unstemmed A corpus study of the conceptualization of learners in applied linguistics / Tan Ken Siang
title_short A corpus study of the conceptualization of learners in applied linguistics / Tan Ken Siang
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