ApLing Corpus

The Applied Linguistics Corpus (ApLing) is a specialized corpus of approximately 4.7 million words from 640 peer-reviewed research articles published between 2010 and 2020 across eight subdisciplines of applied linguistics.

I designed and developed the corpus as part of my doctoral research to provide a representative dataset for investigating linguistic patterns in published applied linguistics research. The corpus was designed to capture variation across major research areas and disciplinary contexts within the field.

Corpus at a Glance

4.7M+ words
640 research articles
8 applied linguistics subdisciplines
2010–2020 publication period

Research & Pedagogical Applications

ApLing has been used to investigate noun + noun sequences, grammatical complexity, and disciplinary patterns in academic writing. My doctoral research using the corpus resulted in a pedagogical list of 216 noun + noun sequences and the development of corpus-informed Data-Driven Learning (DDL) materials for academic writing instruction.

The corpus and its methodological framework can also support further research on disciplinary discourse, academic writing, corpus-informed pedagogy, and linguistic analysis.

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Visit the dedicated ApLing Corpus website for additional information about the corpus, its design and methodology, and related resources.

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