The AMC LAB

The AMC LAB has been created to share data with scholars, teachers and learners who aim to investigate, teach and/or learn the lexico-grammatical features characterizing spoken language. Significantt investigations of the AMC have revealed that their dialogs share the same textuality and linguistic features of natural face-to-face conversation. These revolutionary findings have opened up new avenues:

- For SCHOLARLY RESEARCH: for many years movie language has been considered as artificially written-to-be-spoken and deemed unlikely to comprise the features that characterize conversation. Data from the AMC corpus offers new ways of approaching the study of movie and spoken language;

- For LANGUAGE LEARNING: language learners can improve their spoken competence through practice on movie conversation;

- For LANGUAGE TEACHING: authoritative scholars have been emphasizing the crucial role played by spoken language in communication for almost a hundred years. In spite of this, attention given to the study of lexico-grammatical spoken features in educational settings has been scarce. The textual and linguistic similarity of movie dialogs with face-to-face conversation and the rich resource of spoken language features which the AMC represents  mean that teachers now have the chance to give spoken language its rightful place. The textual and linguistic similarity of movie dialogs with face-to-face conversation and the rich resource of spoken language features which the AMC represents mean that teachers now have the chance to give spoken language its rightful place.

The data shared here (cf. The AMC-50 Data Reference

  and Quick Reference)  

are just an example of the role that movie language and corpora can have in the mastering of the most recurrent linguistic patterns found in conversation. 

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