Articles By: Benjamin Niedzielski

Input Hypothesis

Published: January 14, 2020
foreign language textbooks

The idea that language learners need exposure to the language (or “input”) to make progress in the target language is neither surprising nor new.  What is surprising is what the…

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Textual analysis and word clouds

Published: December 12, 2018
A small word cloud of terms associated with word clouds

If you have done work in the Humanities, you have likely come across the concept of “close reading” — the careful, detailed examination and interpretation of a short passage of…

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