Alfredo Urzua

List of John Benjamins publications in which Alfredo Urzua is involved.

Articles

Urzua, Alfredo 2015 Corpora, context, and language teachers: Teacher involvement in a local learner corpus project Corpus-based Research in Applied Linguistics: Studies in Honor of Doug Biber, Cortes, Viviana and Eniko Csomay (eds.), pp. 99–122 | Article

The language teacher is an often neglected figure in learner corpora projects, including those whose aim is to apply corpus findings to second language pedagogy. Even though teacher mediation is critical to the potential success of corpus-informed instructional practices, the literature seldom… read more

Urzua, Alfredo 2013 Chapter 6. Pronominal choice and self-positioning strategies in second language academic writing: A pragmatic analysis using learner corpus data Technology in Interlanguage Pragmatics Research and Teaching, Taguchi, Naoko and Julie M. Sykes (eds.), pp. 121–152 | Article

Academic writing involves an understanding of how authors position themselves into their texts, what type of textual presence they adopt, and what kind of relationship they establish with their readers. One way in which self-positioning is accomplished is by the use of personal pronouns, which can… read more