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Alex Boulton

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ID3843641
NAMEAlex Boulton
GIVEN NAMESAlex
FAMILY NAMEBoulton
SIGNATUREBOULTON A
AFFILIATIONSAnalyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française
ORCID0000-0001-6306-8158
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS40
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3
  • Data‐Driven Learning

    Open Access•Jarvis Looi, Alessandra Cacciato et al.•CHAPTER•Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics•2026

    Data‐driven learning (DDL) is a language‐learning approach grounded in the tools and techniques of corpus linguistics. Popularized by Tim Johns in the late 1980s, DDL promotes language learning by giving learners direct access to authentic language data. It also fosters learner autonomy by likening learners to language researchers who explore corpus data, identify patterns, and form hypotheses to solve language problems. Traditionally implemented…

  • From theory to data: Testing introspective claims on synonymous French adjectives ‘prochain’ and ‘suivant’ using corpus-based methods

    Open Access•Jarvis Looi, Patricia Nora Riget et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Corpus…•2025•References: 3

    This paper presents a corpus-based study that evaluates variables identified introspectively by Berthonneau (2002) in relation to the alternation between two French synonymous: prochain (‘next’ or ‘upcoming’) and suivant (‘following’ or ‘next’). Employing a multifactorial and behavioural profiles approach, we explore the asymmetry in their temporal and spatial applications. Our findings highlight distinct uses with temporal nouns, whereas uses wi…

  • Teaching Reading for Case Law in English for Legal Purposes

    Open Access•Alex Boulton, Carmenne Kalyaniwala et al.•ARTICLE•ASp•2025•References: 1

    La lecture des arrêts est essentielle pour l’étude de l’anglais juridique, mais l’enseignement de la compréhension écrite fait l’objet de peu de recherches. Cet article examine les approches actuelles dans les cours d’anglais juridique via les résultats de 26 questionnaires et de 7 entretiens semi-dirigés. Nous constatons que trois approches sont utilisées pour intégrer les arrêts dans les cours d’anglais juridique. La première consiste à utilise…

  • Data‐Driven Learning: A Linguistically Authentic Complement to Coursebooks for Foreign Language Learners

    Open Access•Jarvis Looi, Alex Boulton et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Applied…•2025

    This study explores the potential of data‐driven learning (DDL) as a complement to traditional coursebooks for multilingual learners of French as a foreign language. Motivated by the need to address insufficiencies in coursebooks, such as oversimplified and misrepresented grammar rules, the study aims to examine how DDL facilitates the learning of French, focusing on adjective placement. To investigate this, the study employed a mixed‐methods exp…

  • Expanding Methodological Approaches in DDL Research

    Open Access•Alex Boulton, Nina Vyatkina•ARTICLE•TESOL Quarterly•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    This paper analyses the methodologies in 148 empirical data‐driven learning studies for L2 English in prestige journals to examine best practice. Manual coding and corpus analysis of key words and n‐grams from the past 5 years (2018–2022) explore the field as a whole and how methodologies have evolved, suggesting improvements and future avenues for research

  • De l’élève à l’apprenant: Les rôles vers l’autonomie

    Open Access•Alex Boulton•ARTICLE•Recherches en didactique des…•2022

    « What’s in a name ? » Eh bien, sans adhérer à l’hypothèse forte de Sapir-Whorf selon laquelle nos perceptions du monde seraient façonnées par le langage – beaucoup. Le lien signifiant / signifié a beau être arbitraire, les choix terminologiques ne sont pas toujours neutres ou anodins. Ainsi, le professeur est « celui qui se [sic] déclare expert dans un art ou une science » (Trésor de la Langue Française), tandis que l’élève se fait élever comme …

  • Corpora in language teaching and learning

    Open Access•Alex Boulton•ARTICLE•Language Teaching•2017•Cited by: 7•References: 5

    This timeline looks at explicit uses of corpora in foreign or second language (L2) teaching and learning, i.e. what happens when end-users explore corpus data, whether directly via concordancers or integrated into CALL programs, or indirectly with prepared printed materials. The underlying rationale is that such contact provides the massive contextualised exposure needed for language learning, but in a more controlled way than purely haphazard ex…

  • Corpus Use in Language Learning: A Meta-Analysis

    Open Access•Alex Boulton, Tia Cobb et al.•ARTICLE•Language Learning•2017•Cited by: 23•References: 49

    This study applied systematic meta-analytic procedures to summarize findings from experimental and quasi-experimental investigations into the effectiveness of using the tools and techniques of corpus linguistics for second language learning or use, here referred to as data-driven learning (DDL). Analysis of 64 separate studies representing 88 unique samples reporting sufficient data indicated that DDL approaches result in large overall effects fo…

  • Analyse de The Online Informal Learning of English

    Open Access•Alex Boulton, Maud Ciekanski•ARTICLE•Alsic•2016

    analyse

  • Corpus et appropriation de L1 et L2

    Open Access•Alex Boulton, Emmanuelle Canut et al.•ARTICLE•Linx•2013•References: 46

    Cet article se donne pour objectif de dresser un état de l’art concernant l’utilisation de corpus autour l’apprentissage/acquisition de la ou des langues. Il sera question non seulement de mettre en avant des passerelles entre domaines d’utilisation et d’exploitation des corpus autour de l’enseignement/ apprentissage (L1 comme L2) mais il sera également question de pointer les problèmes ou les difficultés liées à la méthodologie sur corpus pour l…

  • Présentation

    Henry Tyne, Virginie Andre et al.•ARTICLE•Linx•2013

    L’existence de corpus a transformé notre rapport à la langue. Ils permettent d’appréhender de très nombreuses questions posées en linguistique, qu’elle soit appliquée ou non. Les corpus offrent la possibilité, par exemple, de comparer les utilisations et les distributions de certaines occurrences lexicales ou constructions syntaxiques, de nous interroger sur les catégories grammaticales, sur les processus de changement linguistique, sur les mécan…

  • Consultation de corpus et styles d’apprentissage

    Alex Boulton•ARTICLE•Les Cahiers de l APLIUT•2010•References: 1

    Les corpus représentent une ressource avec de multiples possibilités pour l'apprentissage des langues, mais les résultats d'expériences avec les étudiants sont moins convaincants qu'on pourrait l'espérer. Une explication serait que les résultats quantitatifs cachent la diversité des profils d'apprenants. Cette étude décrit une expérience où des étudiants en architecture consultent soit un corpus, soit un dictionnaire pour résoudre des difficultés…

  • Data-Driven Learning: Taking the Computer Out of the Equation

    Open Access•Alex Boulton•ARTICLE•Language Learning•2010•Cited by: 8•References: 36

    Despite considerable research interest, data-driven learning (DDL) has not become part of mainstream teaching practice. It may be that technical aspects are too daunting for teachers and students, but there seems to be no reason why DDL in its early stages should not eliminate the computer from the equation by using prepared materials on paper-considerably easier for the novice learner to handle. This article reports on an experiment to see how l…

  • Corpus Use in Language Learning: A Meta-Analysis

    Open Access•Alex Boulton, Tia Cobb et al.•ARTICLE•Language Learning•2017•Cited by: 23•References: 49

    This study applied systematic meta-analytic procedures to summarize findings from experimental and quasi-experimental investigations into the effectiveness of using the tools and techniques of corpus linguistics for second language learning or use, here referred to as data-driven learning (DDL). Analysis of 64 separate studies representing 88 unique samples reporting sufficient data indicated that DDL approaches result in large overall effects fo…

  • Data-Driven Learning: Taking the Computer Out of the Equation

    Open Access•Alex Boulton•ARTICLE•Language Learning•2010•Cited by: 8•References: 36

    Despite considerable research interest, data-driven learning (DDL) has not become part of mainstream teaching practice. It may be that technical aspects are too daunting for teachers and students, but there seems to be no reason why DDL in its early stages should not eliminate the computer from the equation by using prepared materials on paper-considerably easier for the novice learner to handle. This article reports on an experiment to see how l…

  • Corpora in language teaching and learning

    Open Access•Alex Boulton•ARTICLE•Language Teaching•2017•Cited by: 7•References: 5

    This timeline looks at explicit uses of corpora in foreign or second language (L2) teaching and learning, i.e. what happens when end-users explore corpus data, whether directly via concordancers or integrated into CALL programs, or indirectly with prepared printed materials. The underlying rationale is that such contact provides the massive contextualised exposure needed for language learning, but in a more controlled way than purely haphazard ex…

  • Expanding Methodological Approaches in DDL Research

    Open Access•Alex Boulton, Nina Vyatkina•ARTICLE•TESOL Quarterly•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    This paper analyses the methodologies in 148 empirical data‐driven learning studies for L2 English in prestige journals to examine best practice. Manual coding and corpus analysis of key words and n‐grams from the past 5 years (2018–2022) explore the field as a whole and how methodologies have evolved, suggesting improvements and future avenues for research

  • Consultation de corpus et styles d’apprentissage

    Alex Boulton•ARTICLE•Les Cahiers de l APLIUT•2010•References: 1

    Les corpus représentent une ressource avec de multiples possibilités pour l'apprentissage des langues, mais les résultats d'expériences avec les étudiants sont moins convaincants qu'on pourrait l'espérer. Une explication serait que les résultats quantitatifs cachent la diversité des profils d'apprenants. Cette étude décrit une expérience où des étudiants en architecture consultent soit un corpus, soit un dictionnaire pour résoudre des difficultés…

  • Data-Driven Learning: Taking the Computer Out of the Equation

    Open Access•Alex Boulton•ARTICLE•Language Learning•2010•Cited by: 8•References: 36

    Despite considerable research interest, data-driven learning (DDL) has not become part of mainstream teaching practice. It may be that technical aspects are too daunting for teachers and students, but there seems to be no reason why DDL in its early stages should not eliminate the computer from the equation by using prepared materials on paper-considerably easier for the novice learner to handle. This article reports on an experiment to see how l…

  • Corpus et appropriation de L1 et L2

    Open Access•Alex Boulton, Emmanuelle Canut et al.•ARTICLE•Linx•2013•References: 46

    Cet article se donne pour objectif de dresser un état de l’art concernant l’utilisation de corpus autour l’apprentissage/acquisition de la ou des langues. Il sera question non seulement de mettre en avant des passerelles entre domaines d’utilisation et d’exploitation des corpus autour de l’enseignement/ apprentissage (L1 comme L2) mais il sera également question de pointer les problèmes ou les difficultés liées à la méthodologie sur corpus pour l…

  • Présentation

    Henry Tyne, Virginie Andre et al.•ARTICLE•Linx•2013

    L’existence de corpus a transformé notre rapport à la langue. Ils permettent d’appréhender de très nombreuses questions posées en linguistique, qu’elle soit appliquée ou non. Les corpus offrent la possibilité, par exemple, de comparer les utilisations et les distributions de certaines occurrences lexicales ou constructions syntaxiques, de nous interroger sur les catégories grammaticales, sur les processus de changement linguistique, sur les mécan…

  • Analyse de The Online Informal Learning of English

    Open Access•Alex Boulton, Maud Ciekanski•ARTICLE•Alsic•2016

    analyse

  • Corpora in language teaching and learning

    Open Access•Alex Boulton•ARTICLE•Language Teaching•2017•Cited by: 7•References: 5

    This timeline looks at explicit uses of corpora in foreign or second language (L2) teaching and learning, i.e. what happens when end-users explore corpus data, whether directly via concordancers or integrated into CALL programs, or indirectly with prepared printed materials. The underlying rationale is that such contact provides the massive contextualised exposure needed for language learning, but in a more controlled way than purely haphazard ex…

  • Corpus Use in Language Learning: A Meta-Analysis

    Open Access•Alex Boulton, Tia Cobb et al.•ARTICLE•Language Learning•2017•Cited by: 23•References: 49

    This study applied systematic meta-analytic procedures to summarize findings from experimental and quasi-experimental investigations into the effectiveness of using the tools and techniques of corpus linguistics for second language learning or use, here referred to as data-driven learning (DDL). Analysis of 64 separate studies representing 88 unique samples reporting sufficient data indicated that DDL approaches result in large overall effects fo…

  • De l’élève à l’apprenant: Les rôles vers l’autonomie

    Open Access•Alex Boulton•ARTICLE•Recherches en didactique des…•2022

    « What’s in a name ? » Eh bien, sans adhérer à l’hypothèse forte de Sapir-Whorf selon laquelle nos perceptions du monde seraient façonnées par le langage – beaucoup. Le lien signifiant / signifié a beau être arbitraire, les choix terminologiques ne sont pas toujours neutres ou anodins. Ainsi, le professeur est « celui qui se [sic] déclare expert dans un art ou une science » (Trésor de la Langue Française), tandis que l’élève se fait élever comme …

  • Expanding Methodological Approaches in DDL Research

    Open Access•Alex Boulton, Nina Vyatkina•ARTICLE•TESOL Quarterly•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    This paper analyses the methodologies in 148 empirical data‐driven learning studies for L2 English in prestige journals to examine best practice. Manual coding and corpus analysis of key words and n‐grams from the past 5 years (2018–2022) explore the field as a whole and how methodologies have evolved, suggesting improvements and future avenues for research

  • From theory to data: Testing introspective claims on synonymous French adjectives ‘prochain’ and ‘suivant’ using corpus-based methods

    Open Access•Jarvis Looi, Patricia Nora Riget et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Corpus…•2025•References: 3

    This paper presents a corpus-based study that evaluates variables identified introspectively by Berthonneau (2002) in relation to the alternation between two French synonymous: prochain (‘next’ or ‘upcoming’) and suivant (‘following’ or ‘next’). Employing a multifactorial and behavioural profiles approach, we explore the asymmetry in their temporal and spatial applications. Our findings highlight distinct uses with temporal nouns, whereas uses wi…

  • Teaching Reading for Case Law in English for Legal Purposes

    Open Access•Alex Boulton, Carmenne Kalyaniwala et al.•ARTICLE•ASp•2025•References: 1

    La lecture des arrêts est essentielle pour l’étude de l’anglais juridique, mais l’enseignement de la compréhension écrite fait l’objet de peu de recherches. Cet article examine les approches actuelles dans les cours d’anglais juridique via les résultats de 26 questionnaires et de 7 entretiens semi-dirigés. Nous constatons que trois approches sont utilisées pour intégrer les arrêts dans les cours d’anglais juridique. La première consiste à utilise…

  • Data‐Driven Learning: A Linguistically Authentic Complement to Coursebooks for Foreign Language Learners

    Open Access•Jarvis Looi, Alex Boulton et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Applied…•2025

    This study explores the potential of data‐driven learning (DDL) as a complement to traditional coursebooks for multilingual learners of French as a foreign language. Motivated by the need to address insufficiencies in coursebooks, such as oversimplified and misrepresented grammar rules, the study aims to examine how DDL facilitates the learning of French, focusing on adjective placement. To investigate this, the study employed a mixed‐methods exp…

  • Data‐Driven Learning

    Open Access•Jarvis Looi, Alessandra Cacciato et al.•CHAPTER•Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics•2026

    Data‐driven learning (DDL) is a language‐learning approach grounded in the tools and techniques of corpus linguistics. Popularized by Tim Johns in the late 1980s, DDL promotes language learning by giving learners direct access to authentic language data. It also fosters learner autonomy by likening learners to language researchers who explore corpus data, identify patterns, and form hypotheses to solve language problems. Traditionally implemented…

Linguistics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (6 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (5 works) · Mathematics education (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Language acquisition (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works)

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