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Luciana Forti is Tenure-Track Researcher in Educational Linguistics at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. Her work explores various intersections between second language acquisition and corpus linguistics, with a particular focus on data-driven learning, learner corpus research, and phraseology. Her most recent publications address issues related to the use of learner corpora in the development of language teaching materials, the relationship between learner production and processing of word combinations, and the creation of open educational resources to promote the uptake of corpus use in non-academic teaching contexts. She teaches courses on second language teaching, corpus linguistics, and translation. In 2023, she published the monograph Corpus Use in Italian Language Pedagogy. Exploring the Effects of Data-driven learning (Routledge).
Agnieszka LEŃKO-SZYMAŃSKA is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw. Her research interests lie at the intersection of second language acquisition, language teaching and assessment, and corpus linguistics, with a particular focus on learner corpus research. Her monograph Defining and Assessing Lexical Proficiency (Routledge, 2020) examines the construct of word use in L2 writing. She has published widely on the applications of corpora in language teaching and learning. She is currently Vice-President of the Learner Corpus Association.
Susan Nacey is a professor of linguistics and currently Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Education at the University of Inland Norway (INN), and a member of INN’s research group ‘English Language in Use’. She researches metaphor and other features in a wide variety of text types in English and Norwegian, especially in written and spoken learner language. She is the author of ‘Metaphors in learner English’ (John Benjamins, 2013) and the co-editor of ‘Metaphor identification in multiple languages: MIPVU around the world’ (John Benjamins, 2019). Professor Nacey is also an Editor of the journal ‘Metaphor and the Social World’ and Associate Editor of ‘Metaphor and Symbol’. She led a team in the development of the Norwegian version of the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI), and contributed to the development of the TRAWL Corpus – Tracking Written Learner Language. See here for her profile in the Norwegian Research Information Repository and here for her personal webpage.
