Plenary: From data literacy to AI literacy: examining engagement with corpora and technology in language education

Prof Pascual Pérez-Paredes will deliver a keynote at the 2nd EUt+ International Conference on Languages  EUt LC 2024 -Merging New Trends and Consolidating Good Practices in Languages for Specific Purposes – UPCT, Cartagena, Spain, June 26-28, 2024

Abstract

In this talk, I discuss recent developments in what I have described elsewhere as Broad scope DDL (BsDDL) (Pérez-Paredes, 2024), an alternative approach that situates learners’ learning ecology (Pérez-Paredes, 2022b) at the centre of a learning process and where a variety of language data sources such as corpora, Gen AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) coexist. This ecology acknowledges the important role of new digital literacies and the symbolically mediated practices involving different types of knowledge and skills when engaged with texts in electronically mediated environments (Kern, 2021).

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Pérez-Paredes, P. (2022a). A systematic review of the uses and spread of corpora and data-driven learning in CALL research during 2011–2015. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 35(1-2), 36-61.

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Pérez-Paredes, P. (2024) Data-driven learning in informal contexts? Embracing Broad Data-driven learning (BDDL) research. In Crosthwaite, P. (Ed.). Corpora for Language Learning: Bridging the Research-Practice Divide. Routledge.