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Laurence Anthony
Born (1970-01-22) 22 January 1970 (age 54)
NationalityBritish
EducationBSc, MA, PhD
Alma mater
Known for
Scientific career
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WebsiteLaurence Anthony's website

Laurence Anthony (born 1970) is a Professor in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Waseda University[1] and the creator of AntCont, a freeware concordancer which is part of his AntLab suite of tools for corpus linguistic analysis.

Biography

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Academic Career

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Originally from Huddersfield, UK, Anthony completed his BSc in Mathematical Physics at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology from 1988–1991 before moving to Tokyo to take up a language teaching post at Keiyu English School. Inspired to pursue a career in teaching scientific communication and developing educational and research resources[2], he completed the MA TEFL/TESL at the University of Birmingham via distance learning, earning a distinction for his thesis on genre analysis. In 2002, he was awarded a PhD in Applied Linguistics in 2002 from the University of Birmingham for his work developing tools to automatically analyse texts at the sentence and discourse level. [3] Anthony held a lecturing post at the Okayama University of Science from 1993–2004 before commencing his current post in the Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering (CELESE) within the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Waseda University. He was Associate Professor from 2004–2009 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2009.

Anthony serves on the editorial board of the Corpus Linguistics Research Journal, the Taiwan International ESP Journal, the Journal of English Education, and the Journal of Asia TEFL. He is an advisory board member for the Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics series, Studies in Corpus Linguistics, and the English as a Global Language Education (EaGLE) Journal.

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Personal life

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In his spare time, Anthony is a keen guitar player. He is a lifelong supporter of Manchester City F.C..

Works

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Books

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  • Schmitt, N., Dunn, K., O'Sullivan, B., Anthony, L., & Kremmel, B. (2024). Knowledge-based Vocabulary Lists. Equinox Publishing Ltd, Sheffield: UK.
  • Anthony, L. (2018). Introducing English for Specific Purposes. Abingdon: UK. Routledge Press.

Book chapters

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Anthony has authored or co-authored over 30 contributions to volumes such as The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Computer-Assisted Language Learning, The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics, The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies, and Corpus Approaches to Discourse: A Critical Review. These include:

  • Anthony, L. (in press). Concordancers for Data-Driven Learning (DDL). The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Palgrave.
  • Crosthwaite, P. & Anthony, L. (in press). Corpus tools Data-Driven Learning (DDL). The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Palgrave.
  • Anthony, L. (2022). What can corpus software do?, in A O’Keeffe & M McCarthy (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Abingdon: UK. Routledge Press.
  • Anthony, L. (2020). Programming for Corpus Linguistics, in M. Paquot & S. T. Gries (Eds.) Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Berlin: Germany. Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46216-1_9.
  • Anthony, L. (2019). Resources for researching vocabulary, in S. Webb (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies. Abingdon: UK. Routledge Press.
  • Anthony, L. (2018). Visualization in Corpus-Based Discourse Studies, in C. Taylor and A. Marchi (Eds.) Corpus Approaches to Discourse: A Critical Review. Abingdon: UK. Routledge Press.
  • Nation, P. & Anthony, L. (2016). Measuring vocabulary size. In E. Hinkel (Ed.), Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning, Volume III (pp. 355-368). New York: Routledge.

References

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  1. ^ Faculty profile, Waseda University. Retrieved 2024-11-14.
  2. ^ CorCenCC Newsletter, Issue 8: November 2016. Retrieved 2024-11-14.
  3. ^ "A machine learning system for the automatic identification of text structure, and application to research article abstracts in computer science". Retrieved 14 November 2024.