On 24th January 2020, Dana Gablasova travelled to Cork in Ireland to give a talk on how corpus-based resources, BNClab and LancsBox, can be used by teachers to develop innovative classes that integrate digital technology. The talk was organised by University College Cork and funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and…
We were delighted to be invited to deliver a session on a Teacher Subject Day for the Princes Training Institute (PTI) on 7th March 2020. Dana Gablasova will be speaking on how to use corpus linguistics and BNClab to teach about language change (see the abstract below). How to use corpus linguistics to teach about…
First batch of A-level teaching materials is now out The BNClab website now contains the first batch of teaching materials – both student worksheets and teacher notes for each of these worksheets. The worksheets explore the role played in current spoken British English by various social factors such as gender, region and age of the speakers. The worksheets contain hands-on exercises that involve students searching…
At the end of June, Dana Gablasova and Vaclav Brezina took part in the 55th Annual Conference of the National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) at Aston University in Birmingham. Their presentation introduced the teachers of A level English Language to the the BNClab platform and the functionalities it includes. We also discussed the…
On the 3rd of July, we were delighted to welcome teachers and students studying A Level English Language at the A-level conference organised by the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. During the conference, we organised two corpus workshops – one for the students and one for the teachers. The corpus workshop…
On 18th July 2018, we held a three-hour practical workshop on ‘Using corpora to teach sociolinguistics’ at the 13th Teaching and Language Corpora conference hosted by Cambridge University. The workshop focused on the use of our two key resources, #LancsBox and BNClab to teach about current use of spoken British English and social factors that…
Launching BNClab! We are very happy to announce launching of the BNClab platform along with the first batch of A-level English Language teaching materials – both student worksheets and a series of teacher notes for each worksheet. The student worksheets can be downloaded directly from BNClab, the Teacher notes require a password for access. To receive the password, please email…
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