Yvonne Breyer
Research activities
Conference Papers
2006
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"How to Teach with Corpora - Integrating Corpus Linguistics into Initial Teacher Training"
Teaching and Language Corpora 2006, 7th TALC, International Conference, Paris, France, 01-04 July 2005.
2005
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"Love's Labour's Lost - The troublesome relationship between corpus linguistics research and its application to EFL teacher training in Germany"
Corpus Linguistics 2005, International Conference, Birmingham University, UK, 14-17 July 2005. -
"My Concordancer" - Tailor-made Software for Language Teachers and Learners"
Practical Applications in Language and Computers, PALC 2005, 5th International Conference, Lodz, Poland, 7-9 April.
Grants & Awards
2006
Postgraduate Research Fund (PGRF)
Macquarie University, Round 2, 2006
2006
Vice-Chancellor's Development Fund: European Languages Online
Project Leader and Grant recipient: Dr Martina Möllering;
Position as Online Development Coordinator for Yvonne Breyer resulted from this grant.
2005
Postgraduate Research Fund (PGRF)
Macquarie University, Round 2, 2005
2004
International Macquarie University Research Scholarship (iMURS)
Fulltime Scholarship for three years (Higher Degree Research)
2003
Award for Outstanding Achievement
Best MA-Thesis, 2003 (Duisburg-Essen University, Germany)
Projects
2004 - 2007 (ongoing)
My Concordancer: Corpus Analysis Software for Language Teachers and Learners
Developer of concordancing software for classroom use.
Project members: Yvonne Breyer and Maik Jurkait
http://sourceforge.net/projects/myconcordancer/
2003
Linguistics Online
International Learning platform for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics in Higher Education.
Participation as co-developer and co-teacher.
Project website: http://www.linguistics-online.de
2000 - 2006 (ongoing)
Gateway to Corpus Linguistics on the Internet
Webmaster and author of annotated guide to corpus linguistics resources on the web:
http://www.corpus-linguistics.com
Publications
Breyer, Y. (2006). "My Concordancer: Tailor-made software for language teachers and learners", in: Braun, S., K. Kohn & J. Mukherjee. Corpus Technology and Language Pedagogy: New Resources, New Tools, New Methods. (Fankfurt; New York: Lang), 157-176.
Breyer, Y. (2002). "Gateway to Corpus Linguistics on the Internet" Sprache und Datenverarbeitung 26(1), 5-12.