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Using corpora to enhance language

learningMichael Barlow

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Overviewwordlists

collocation lists

online concordancers

text analysis software

concordancers

ParaConc and Collocate

web-based exercises

data-driven learning materials

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Wordlists – general and specialised

Wordlists have been around since before the invention of computers. General wordlists are used for curriculum development, textbook writing etc.

Also possible to produce a word list for a reading (or a possibly textbook)

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Wordlists – general

Use existing wordlists such as West's General Service List and recent updates. Coxhead's Academic Wordlist. Kilgarriff's Wordlists based on the BNC.

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Kilgarriff Page

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Academic Word List

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Academic Word List

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Academic Word List

• receptive list (based on morphological derivations)

• the list excludes words found in non-academic texts (even if they occur in academic texts)

• do we need subject or genre-specific wordlists? (Hyland)

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Specialised Word List

• Create a wordlist from a corpus (using concordancer or other utilities)

• May need to create your own corpus – BootCaT ?? Silvia Bernadini

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BootCaT

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Vocab Profile

• Tom Cobb's Vocab Profile

• http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/eng/

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Collocation lists

• More difficult to find – use Collocation Dictionary??

• Biber's work on lexical bundles

• Use concordancer or utility to create ngram lists or locate collocations

• Collocate – shown below

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Concordancers

• Online concordancer

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Concordancers

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Concordancers – americancorpus.org

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Concordancers• Using a concordancer in the classroom

• Corpus as a reference tool – query the corpus

– can you say “the government are”

– what is the difference between “for instance” and “for example”

– Tim Johns – Data-driven Learning

• (...caused economic development...)

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Concordancers – text reconstruction

exercises

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Data-driven learning (deductive)

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Data-driven learning(inductive)

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Concordance data

• DDL – highlighting/noticing/discovery learning

• Highlight unexpected (for the learner) distinctions, uses etc.

• Sequence data to build up knowledge

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Parallel concordance data

• Parallel concordance works on translation corpus

• Students need to have same L1

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Concordance data issues

• KWIC format

• Google effect

• Data overload

• Reauthenticating data

– Sabine Braun – includes discourse perspective (Why did the speaker use that form?)

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Parallel Corpora – DDL (CHUJO, Kiyomi)

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Parallel Corpora – DDL (Chujo, Kiyomi)

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Collocate

Software to extract collocations/terms

Word search + Span (2 words, 3 words etc.)

n-gram (bigram, trigram) list

Full extract -- collocations in a corpus

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Search for analysis (Span = 2)

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analysis - frequency

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analysis - t-score

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analysis - MI

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Trigram search

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Trigram -- by freq

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Trigram -- alphabetical

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Trigram -- by MI

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Using batch mode –

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Corpuslab.com Familiar exercise authoring

Currently offline

Aims

avoid duplication of tasks -- identifying common collocations in Business English

Provide corpus/analysis resources

Bring corpus resources together with familiar exercise authoring

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Student View

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Student View

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Student View

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Student View

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Exercise types

Matching

Fill-the-gap

Multiple Choice

Reorder

Categorise

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Exercise types

Matching*

Fill-the-gap

Multiple Choice

Reorder

Categorise*

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Teacher view

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Teacher view

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Teacher view

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Teacher view - Resources

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Resources

Teacher-generated resources

uploaded frequency lists

worksheets

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Tracking

Teachers can track their exercises

“Class teachers” track students in their class

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Tracking

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Report for exercise Cat1

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Tracking of student

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School view

Register as a school

Create class names

Assign teachers to classes

Track students in classes

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School view

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School view

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Resources

Site resources

corpora and simple concordancer

text analysis utilities

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Text analysis utilities

Create frequency lists

Text analysis in terms of frequency bands

Collocational analysis of texts

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Corpora

Teacher/Author resource

Sample corpus -- CSPAE

Add other corpora such as MICASE

Create various options for searching that make use of corpus annotation

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Simple searching

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Aims

Create a language learning site

Encourage and facilitate use of corpus data

Matching exercise (up to 5 columns)

Provide access to word lists etc

Provide text analysis tools

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Aims

Use traditional exercise types that teachers are familiar with

Give examples of creative uses of these standard exercises

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Thank you