Ana Frankenberg‐Garcia
Biographic Data
| ID | 6553392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ana Frankenberg‐Garcia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ana |
| FAMILY NAME | Frankenberg‐Garcia |
| SIGNATURE | GARCÍA A F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9623-7990 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Revisiting the Origins of EFL Lexicography
The dominant narrative on the origins of English monolingual learners’ dictionaries (MLDs) attributes their development to the EFL teaching and research by West, Palmer and Hornby in the early twentieth century. To date, the pedagogical features of bilingual dictionaries and their value as precursors to learners’ dictionaries have been largely overlooked. In this study, we revisit the genesis of English MLDs by tracing some of their key design fe…
Can a corpus-driven lexical analysis of human and machine translation unveil discourse features that set them apart
There is still much to learn about the ways in which human and machine translation differ with regard to the contexts that regulate the production and interpretation of discourse. The present study explores whether a corpus-driven lexical analysis of human and machine translation can unveil discourse features that set the two apart. A balanced corpus of source texts aligned with authentic, professional translations and neural machine translations…
Slipping Through the Cracks in e-Lexicography
Despite the remarkable advances made in recent years to facilitate the lexicographer’s work of interpreting and synthesizing the complexity of language uncovered by corpora, an uncritical use of cutting-edge corpus tools and resources can instill a false sense of assurance. In this paper, authentic examples pertaining to wordlist use, collocation research and example selection that arose when compiling a real-world lexical database are discussed …
Combining user needs, lexicographic data and digital writing environments
The past decades have seen dramatic improvements to dictionary content and format. Yet dictionaries – both paper-based and digital – remain disappointingly underused. As a result, it is widely acknowledged that more needs to be done to train people in dictionary-consultation skills. Another solution would be to build lexicographic resources that require little or no instruction. In this paper, I present the ColloCaid project, whose aim is to deve…
Dictionaries and Encoding Examples to Support Language Production
Learners’ dictionaries can help users not just with meanings, but also with collocations, syntax and common errors. Although there are several ways in which information for language production can be presented, previous research has shown that learners tend to prefer to obtain it from examples. However, early studies on the effects of dictionary examples did not disclose much evidence of their value. This could be because dictionaries do not dist…
Learners' Use of Corpus Examples
One of the distinguishing characteristics of corpus-based dictionaries is that most entries contain example sentences or phrases that have been copied or adapted from corpora. Although examples are generally regarded as positive and have high face validity among learners, the body of evidence about their actual benefits is limited and inconclusive. My aim in the present study is to revisit the idea of testing the usefulness of corpus examples. Ho…
Raising teachers' awareness of corpora
The last couple of decades have seen a dramatic increase in corpus availability and a steady growth in the number of supporters of the use of corpora in language teaching. Yet there still seems to be a long way to go before corpora can be understood and used by language teachers in general. Novice corpus users often fail to grasp that corpora do not work in the same way as the more familiar language learning resources – such as dictionaries, gram…
O léxico diferenciado da tradução
Ao lermos uma tradução, é comum termos a clara noção de que estamos perante um texto traduzido, ao contrário do que acontece quando lemos um texto original, produzido sem as limitações impostas por um texto-fonte escrito num idioma diferente. Uma das características que poderá conferir esta sensação de diferença em relação às traduções é a frequência fora do comum de determinado léxico. Pesquisas existentes comparando a frequência de certas palav…
Beyond L1-L2 Equivalents
Current research shows that learners use dictionaries mainly to look up meanings, and generally prefer bilingual over monolingual look-ups. Despite the remarkable advances that have taken place in pedagogical lexicography over the past decades, many features of learners’ dictionaries remain underexploited. Based on the premise that these dictionaries tend to be underused primarily because learners are insufficiently aware of their reference needs…
Herbert Andreas Welker. Panorama Geral da Lexicografia Pedagogica
Journal Article Herbert Andreas Welker. Panorama Geral da Lexicografia Pedagógica. Get access Herbert Andreas WelkerPanorama Geral da Lexicografia Pedagógica.Brasília: Thesaurus. 2008. 524 pages. ISBN 978-85-7062-817-6. Price: 68 BRL. Ana Frankenberg-Garcia Ana Frankenberg-Garcia Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração (ISLA-Lisboa) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Lexicograph…
The corpus, its users and their needs
COMPARA is a bidirectional parallel corpus of English and Portuguese, currently with 3 million words. The corpus was launched in 2000 and at present it is possibly the largest edited parallel corpus publicly available on the Web, with roughly 6,000 corpus queries per month. This paper summarizes an analysis of six years of corpus use. We begin by looking at user studies for language resources, especially corpora, and then we provide a snapshot of…
A Peek into What Today's Language Learners as Researchers Actually Do
Language learners today have a much wider choice of reference materials than in the past. In addition to dictionaries, grammar books and encyclopaedias, nowadays it is also possible for students to look things up on the Internet, in term banks and in corpora. Much of the literature on the pedagogical value of these resources focuses on what each of them can achieve separately. However, little has been said about how learners as researchers actual…
Learners' Use of Corpus Examples
One of the distinguishing characteristics of corpus-based dictionaries is that most entries contain example sentences or phrases that have been copied or adapted from corpora. Although examples are generally regarded as positive and have high face validity among learners, the body of evidence about their actual benefits is limited and inconclusive. My aim in the present study is to revisit the idea of testing the usefulness of corpus examples. Ho…
Dictionaries and Encoding Examples to Support Language Production
Learners’ dictionaries can help users not just with meanings, but also with collocations, syntax and common errors. Although there are several ways in which information for language production can be presented, previous research has shown that learners tend to prefer to obtain it from examples. However, early studies on the effects of dictionary examples did not disclose much evidence of their value. This could be because dictionaries do not dist…
A Peek into What Today's Language Learners as Researchers Actually Do
Language learners today have a much wider choice of reference materials than in the past. In addition to dictionaries, grammar books and encyclopaedias, nowadays it is also possible for students to look things up on the Internet, in term banks and in corpora. Much of the literature on the pedagogical value of these resources focuses on what each of them can achieve separately. However, little has been said about how learners as researchers actual…
Raising teachers' awareness of corpora
The last couple of decades have seen a dramatic increase in corpus availability and a steady growth in the number of supporters of the use of corpora in language teaching. Yet there still seems to be a long way to go before corpora can be understood and used by language teachers in general. Novice corpus users often fail to grasp that corpora do not work in the same way as the more familiar language learning resources – such as dictionaries, gram…
Beyond L1-L2 Equivalents
Current research shows that learners use dictionaries mainly to look up meanings, and generally prefer bilingual over monolingual look-ups. Despite the remarkable advances that have taken place in pedagogical lexicography over the past decades, many features of learners’ dictionaries remain underexploited. Based on the premise that these dictionaries tend to be underused primarily because learners are insufficiently aware of their reference needs…
Combining user needs, lexicographic data and digital writing environments
The past decades have seen dramatic improvements to dictionary content and format. Yet dictionaries – both paper-based and digital – remain disappointingly underused. As a result, it is widely acknowledged that more needs to be done to train people in dictionary-consultation skills. Another solution would be to build lexicographic resources that require little or no instruction. In this paper, I present the ColloCaid project, whose aim is to deve…
The corpus, its users and their needs
COMPARA is a bidirectional parallel corpus of English and Portuguese, currently with 3 million words. The corpus was launched in 2000 and at present it is possibly the largest edited parallel corpus publicly available on the Web, with roughly 6,000 corpus queries per month. This paper summarizes an analysis of six years of corpus use. We begin by looking at user studies for language resources, especially corpora, and then we provide a snapshot of…
A Peek into What Today's Language Learners as Researchers Actually Do
Language learners today have a much wider choice of reference materials than in the past. In addition to dictionaries, grammar books and encyclopaedias, nowadays it is also possible for students to look things up on the Internet, in term banks and in corpora. Much of the literature on the pedagogical value of these resources focuses on what each of them can achieve separately. However, little has been said about how learners as researchers actual…
The corpus, its users and their needs
COMPARA is a bidirectional parallel corpus of English and Portuguese, currently with 3 million words. The corpus was launched in 2000 and at present it is possibly the largest edited parallel corpus publicly available on the Web, with roughly 6,000 corpus queries per month. This paper summarizes an analysis of six years of corpus use. We begin by looking at user studies for language resources, especially corpora, and then we provide a snapshot of…
Herbert Andreas Welker. Panorama Geral da Lexicografia Pedagogica
Journal Article Herbert Andreas Welker. Panorama Geral da Lexicografia Pedagógica. Get access Herbert Andreas WelkerPanorama Geral da Lexicografia Pedagógica.Brasília: Thesaurus. 2008. 524 pages. ISBN 978-85-7062-817-6. Price: 68 BRL. Ana Frankenberg-Garcia Ana Frankenberg-Garcia Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração (ISLA-Lisboa) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Lexicograph…
O léxico diferenciado da tradução
Ao lermos uma tradução, é comum termos a clara noção de que estamos perante um texto traduzido, ao contrário do que acontece quando lemos um texto original, produzido sem as limitações impostas por um texto-fonte escrito num idioma diferente. Uma das características que poderá conferir esta sensação de diferença em relação às traduções é a frequência fora do comum de determinado léxico. Pesquisas existentes comparando a frequência de certas palav…
Beyond L1-L2 Equivalents
Current research shows that learners use dictionaries mainly to look up meanings, and generally prefer bilingual over monolingual look-ups. Despite the remarkable advances that have taken place in pedagogical lexicography over the past decades, many features of learners’ dictionaries remain underexploited. Based on the premise that these dictionaries tend to be underused primarily because learners are insufficiently aware of their reference needs…
Learners' Use of Corpus Examples
One of the distinguishing characteristics of corpus-based dictionaries is that most entries contain example sentences or phrases that have been copied or adapted from corpora. Although examples are generally regarded as positive and have high face validity among learners, the body of evidence about their actual benefits is limited and inconclusive. My aim in the present study is to revisit the idea of testing the usefulness of corpus examples. Ho…
Raising teachers' awareness of corpora
The last couple of decades have seen a dramatic increase in corpus availability and a steady growth in the number of supporters of the use of corpora in language teaching. Yet there still seems to be a long way to go before corpora can be understood and used by language teachers in general. Novice corpus users often fail to grasp that corpora do not work in the same way as the more familiar language learning resources – such as dictionaries, gram…
Dictionaries and Encoding Examples to Support Language Production
Learners’ dictionaries can help users not just with meanings, but also with collocations, syntax and common errors. Although there are several ways in which information for language production can be presented, previous research has shown that learners tend to prefer to obtain it from examples. However, early studies on the effects of dictionary examples did not disclose much evidence of their value. This could be because dictionaries do not dist…
Slipping Through the Cracks in e-Lexicography
Despite the remarkable advances made in recent years to facilitate the lexicographer’s work of interpreting and synthesizing the complexity of language uncovered by corpora, an uncritical use of cutting-edge corpus tools and resources can instill a false sense of assurance. In this paper, authentic examples pertaining to wordlist use, collocation research and example selection that arose when compiling a real-world lexical database are discussed …
Combining user needs, lexicographic data and digital writing environments
The past decades have seen dramatic improvements to dictionary content and format. Yet dictionaries – both paper-based and digital – remain disappointingly underused. As a result, it is widely acknowledged that more needs to be done to train people in dictionary-consultation skills. Another solution would be to build lexicographic resources that require little or no instruction. In this paper, I present the ColloCaid project, whose aim is to deve…
Can a corpus-driven lexical analysis of human and machine translation unveil discourse features that set them apart
There is still much to learn about the ways in which human and machine translation differ with regard to the contexts that regulate the production and interpretation of discourse. The present study explores whether a corpus-driven lexical analysis of human and machine translation can unveil discourse features that set the two apart. A balanced corpus of source texts aligned with authentic, professional translations and neural machine translations…
Revisiting the Origins of EFL Lexicography
The dominant narrative on the origins of English monolingual learners’ dictionaries (MLDs) attributes their development to the EFL teaching and research by West, Palmer and Hornby in the early twentieth century. To date, the pedagogical features of bilingual dictionaries and their value as precursors to learners’ dictionaries have been largely overlooked. In this study, we revisit the genesis of English MLDs by tracing some of their key design fe…
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