BIG DATA PARA LA INVESTIGACIÓN LINGÜÍSTICA Y LA EDUCACIÓN BILINGÜE

Abstract

Using big data in the scientific field and also in the business sector is undoubtedly resulting in many benefits, not only economic, but also related with knowledge and science. However, in spite of the acknowledged advantages of this new methodology, it is not still being used in education nor in bilingual lessons. In this project, we aim to know the degree of interest of Twitter users in some different topics to understand their tastes and interests as potential students of a bilingual Spanish-English class. In order to do this, we have used authoring system that makes a search through Twitter by adding some preestablished parameters, such as geographic area, language, topic and date. This way, we can learn the attitude of users towards the studied topics in order to design more effective and personalized curricula, with the intention of achieving more success in language lessons.