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WIRED WORDS


ISBN: 979-12-81068-99-5
ISSN: 2611-1349
Language: English
Publisher : Paolo Loffredo Editore Srl
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WIRED WORDS
Corpora and Digital Assessment in English Education

This volume explores the intersection of learner corpus research, digital assessment, and pedagogical innovation in English Language Teaching (ELT) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP). It outlines a corpus-informed approach to digital pedagogy that integrates linguistic evidence, e-assessment design, and AI-mediated feedback within an integrated framework for reflective and data-driven learning.
The research is based on two complementary learner corpora capturing distinct yet connected aspects of L2 performance. One focuses on language accuracy and morpho-syntactic patterns in controlled testing contexts, while the other examines discourse features of academic writing. Together, these corpora offer complementary perspectives on learner language, showing how grammatical accuracy, lexical choice, and discourse features operate across testing and academic contexts, and how digital environments mediate these dimensions of performance.
Building on corpus-based insights, the study illustrates how e-learning environments and AI tools can connect linguistic research with pedagogical practice. Digital activities and AI-generated feedback, informed by learner data, exemplify how empirical analysis can be transformed into adaptive feedback, reflective learning, and curriculum innovation.
By integrating linguistic research with digital pedagogy, this work positions learner corpora as active pedagogical resources that connect linguistic evidence with educational design. It proposes a data-informed model of language education that promotes transparency, learner agency, and continuous pedagogical advancement in the evolving landscape of digital learning.

Author

Maria De Santo holds a PhD in English Language, Translation and Linguistics. She is a member of the Editorial Board of ALLiED – Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages in Educational Digi-tal Settings. She has extensively published on learner autonomy and technology-enhanced lan¬guage learning in English, En¬glish for Special Purposes (ESP), Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), and on Learning English in the Digital Age. Her re¬search interests and publications lie at the intersection of different theoretical and methodological approaches, including Corpus Linguistics, (Critical) Discourse Analysis and Social Media Critical Discourse Studies (SM-CDS). Her work focuses on the exploration of masculinity, identity and men¬tal health in the digital age, and on the discursive constructions of hate speech and mental health on social media. She has published on the representation of gender identity in online medical com¬munication, digital narratives of mental health on social media, hate speech in educational mate¬rials, and the multimodal repre¬sentation of disability in film.


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