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10/04/2023 Alannah Fitzgerald

EAP concordancingworkshop

Kelly, http://www.slideshare.net/wheatto/in-fast-company

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Lexical knowledgeFLAX concordancer & web collectionsEAP KibbitzersLexical Tutor toolsAcademic word lists & practice sites

Overview

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Typical lexical errors

a. He’s very humorous. He’s always doing jokes.

b. I’m the chairman of a special comedy at my school.

c. He suggested me to try acupuncture.

d. We conversated for almost one hour.

e. First Annual Seoul Marathon for Alien Residents

f. … and compromise, the issue was resolved in a jiffy.

g. North Korea doesn’t contact other countries much.

tellingcollocationcommittee

spoken form

suggested that I try word grammarconversedword families / derivativesForeign Visitors

connotation

have much contact withform-meaning pairs

quicklyregister

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Highlighting aspects of lexical knowledge

tellmake

listen tolaugh at

do

a joke

photograph

photographer

photography

photographic (adj.)

take a photograph

convince sbyof sththat ... to do sth

He tried to convince me that it wasn’t his fault.She convinced him to lend her $100.

make sby believe sth is true

persuade

notorious (for ~)(-) famous for sth badRome is notorious for pickpockets.

notoriously

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‘like’ ‘patent’v

Should be handled by training students in effective use of vocabulary learning strategies.

High-frequency items

Low-frequency items

Deserve explicit and thorough attention in the classroom.

What’s the difference between these words?

… in terms of who needs to learn them?

… and how they should be taught/learned?

Everyone needs them Some depending on personal factors

Feedback to writing (sample)

http://room6halcombeschool.blogspot.com/2011/06/writing-feedback-from-ashhurst.html

7 FLAX Web Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=)

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Web Phrases OER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n67FBqBFm6I

9 FLAX Web Pronoun Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=)

10FLAX Web Pronoun Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=)

Noticing Text Types – Issues of Register and Genre

11FLAX Web Pronoun Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=)

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Web Pronouns Phrases OER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns4nXsZQmUA

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Kibbitzers (Tim John’s EAP pages)

http://www.lexically.net/TimJohns/Kibbitzer/revis028.htm

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Web Collocations (fact vs idea)

http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=g&rt=r&sa=CollocationSearch&s=CollocationTypes&s1.wordClass=n&c=collodb&s1.query=&s1.multiple=

on

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Web Collocations (fact vs idea)

Compleat Lexical Tutor (Tom Cobb)

http://www.lextutor.ca/

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Web Collocations OERhttp://www.lextutor.ca/vp/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyZgZhHMovI

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AWL Exercises (Nottingham)

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/index.htm

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UEFAP (Andy Gillett)

http://www.uefap.com/index.htm

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Specific EAP vocab (UEFAP)

http://www.uefap.com/vocab/vocfram.htm

FLAX User guides & demos

FLAX Web Collocations & Phrases Excercises (by Shaoqun Wu http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~shaoqun/tmp/instruction.html)

User guides & demos

http://flax.nzdl.org/resources/flax_video/flax_video.html

Teacher-created exercises

http://flax.nzdl.org/resources/flax_video/flax_video.html

Future of FLAX

http://flax.nzdl.org/resources/flax_video/flax_video.html