An approach to corpus-based language and multimodal features in communicative exchanges at an early age for adapted hypermedia content design

Abstract

Author/s Alejandro Curado Fuentes University of Extremadura, Spain ABSTRACT This paper describes the results from the analysis of English and Spanish corpora from the CHILDES database for the design of adapted hypermedia (AHS) content in English at the pre-elementary school level. In general, linguistic and paralinguistic information from selected CHILDES transcripts can contribute to the organisation of pedagogical content. In the corpus analysis, it is found that many conversational patterns in children’s L1, mainly collaborative situations, present significant multimodal aspects, which are often correlated with meta-discursive items and markers. The integration of specific multimodal traits in the AHS lessons can be useful for the learners’ L2 development. The use of AHS serves as a naturally resulting resource for multimodality and interactiveness in children’s L2 communicative development.

Keywords

• corpus analysis
• early age
• language learning
• collaborative exchanges
• multimodality
• adaptive hypermedia