Text analysis and automatic creation of English reading activities using corpora

Authors

  • José Lopes Moreira Filho Secretaria de Educação do Estado de São Paulo

Keywords:

Corpus Linguistics, Computational tools, Reading, Language Teaching.

Abstract

The use of corpora in language teaching is an important topic, since practice is aimed at ensuring that the teaching material is focused on the language in use. The process of creating activities for language teaching can be improved by using corpus data and computational tools in linguistic analysis. This study describes a system for text analysis and automatic creation of English reading activities. The results show that the system allows the development of teaching materials that focus on language in use and it also provides varied linguistic analysis, with less human effort, to the task of developing reading activities.

Author Biography

José Lopes Moreira Filho, Secretaria de Educação do Estado de São Paulo

José Lopes Moreira Filho is an English Teacher and Coordinator in the Education Secretary of São Paulo, Brazil, providing professional development for teachers. He has research experience in Linguistics, focusing on Applied Linguistics, acting on the following subjects: Corpus Linguistics, Language Teaching, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.

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Vol. 36 No. 2 (2015)

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