“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”: Developing a film corpus for the language classroom

Alex Gilmore

“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”: Developing a film corpus for the language classroom

Alex Gilmore

Department of English and Communication

Research output: Unpublished conference presentation (presented paper, abstract, poster) › Conference presentation (not published in journal/proceeding/book) › Academic research › peer-review

Abstract

Film offers a rich and readily accessible source of multimodal language input for teachers to exploit in the classroom and is often highly valued by learners to advance their L2 proficiency. This presentation introduces an ongoing research project to design and build a corpus of English film subtitles from a database of 300,000 films (OpenSubtitles.com). It will outline the technical, pedagogical, and legal challenges associated with the development of a film corpus.

Original language	English
Publication status	Not published / presented only - 27 Nov 2023
Event	The Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) 2023 Annual Conference - Tsukuba International Congress Center, Tsukuba, Japan Duration: 24 Nov 2023 → 27 Nov 2023 https://jalt.org/conference/jalt2023

Conference

Conference	The Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) 2023 Annual Conference
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Tsukuba
Period	24/11/23 → 27/11/23
Internet address	https://jalt.org/conference/jalt2023

Keywords

corpus linguistics
movies
data-driven learning
software development
English language teaching

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2023. Paper presented at The Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) 2023 Annual Conference, Tsukuba, Japan.

Research output: Unpublished conference presentation (presented paper, abstract, poster) › Conference presentation (not published in journal/proceeding/book) › Academic research › peer-review

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“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”: Developing a film corpus for the language classroom

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