Presenter: Ian Butler at Enterprise Ireland Big ideas 2011

Lingle -- Putting Authentic Text at the Centre of English Language Learning

The benefits of using authentic learning material, such as newspaper and magazine articles, blogs and websites, in second language acquisition, is well recognised. Use of authentic text increases learner motivation, exposes learners to more diverse vocabulary and wider grammar rule use, provides contextual examples in multiple domains, ensures exposure to the latest vocabulary and has a general educational value all of which leads to an improved learning experience.

Current learning materials used in second language learning are rarely based on real-world, relevant, appropriate and current authentic material. Sourcing authentic texts is a highly-skilled, labour-intensive, manual process that is prohibitively time-consuming for teachers, schools and publishers.

With Lingle teachers, publishers and students can produce linguistically and educationally sound learning material from an enormous pool of authentic text covering a myriad of domains. Lingle uses multiple real world news streams from around the globe to rapidly create lessons and articles for English Language Learning that are at an appropriate level of complexity and of suitable interest to the user.

Lingle analysis identifies grammar and vocabulary, in use, in authentic text. It automatically generates glossaries and assessment exercises from text. Lingle puts authentic text at the centre of English Language Learning


Presenter: Ian Butler, NDRC/Dublin Institute of Technology
Collaborators: Dr. Brian MacNamee, Dublin Institute of Technology
Dr. John Kelleher, Dublin Institute of Technology
Dr. Noel Fitzpatrick, Dublin Institute of Technology

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