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EAP concordancing workshop Alannah Fitzgerald 09/08/2011 1 Kelly, http://www.slideshare.net/wheatto/in-fast-company
Lexical knowledge FLAX concordancer & web collections EAP Kibbitzers Lexical Tutor tools Academic word lists & practice sites Overview 2
telling committee suggested that I try conversed Foreign Visitors quickly have much contact with 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. collocation spoken form word grammar word families / derivatives connotation register form-meaning        pairs 3
of sth that ...  to do sth make sby believe sth is true tell make listen to laugh at do convince sby a joke persuade He tried to convince me that it wasn’t his fault. She convinced him to lend her $100. photograph photographer photography photographic (adj.) take a photograph notorious (for ~) (-) famous for sth bad Rome is notorious for pickpockets. notoriously Highlighting aspects of lexical knowledge 4
v ‘like’ ‘patent’ High-frequency items Low-frequency items What’s the difference between these words? … in terms of who needs to learn them? … and how they should be taught/learned? Somedepending on personal factors Everyone needs them Should be handled by training students in effective use of vocabulary learning strategies. Deserve explicitandthoroughattention in the classroom.   5
Feedback to writing (sample) http://room6halcombeschool.blogspot.com/2011/06/writing-feedback-from-ashhurst.html
 FLAX  Web Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=)  7
Web Phrases OER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n67FBqBFm6I 8
 FLAX  Web Pronoun Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=)  9
Noticing Text Types – Issues of Register and Genre FLAX  Web Pronoun Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=)  10
FLAX  Web Pronoun Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=)  11
Web Pronouns Phrases OER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns4nXsZQmUA 12
Kibbitzers (Tim John’s EAP pages) http://www.lexically.net/TimJohns/Kibbitzer/revis028.htm 13
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 14
Web Collocations (fact vs idea) 15
Compleat Lexical Tutor (Tom Cobb) http://www.lextutor.ca/
Web Collocations OERhttp://www.lextutor.ca/vp/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyZgZhHMovI 17
AWL Exercises (Nottingham) http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/index.htm 18
UEFAP (Andy Gillett) http://www.uefap.com/index.htm 19
Specific EAP vocab (UEFAP) http://www.uefap.com/vocab/vocfram.htm 20
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

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EAP concordancing workshop

  • 1. EAP concordancing workshop Alannah Fitzgerald 09/08/2011 1 Kelly, http://www.slideshare.net/wheatto/in-fast-company
  • 2. Lexical knowledge FLAX concordancer & web collections EAP Kibbitzers Lexical Tutor tools Academic word lists & practice sites Overview 2
  • 3. telling committee suggested that I try conversed Foreign Visitors quickly have much contact with 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. collocation spoken form word grammar word families / derivatives connotation register form-meaning pairs 3
  • 4. of sth that ... to do sth make sby believe sth is true tell make listen to laugh at do convince sby a joke persuade He tried to convince me that it wasn’t his fault. She convinced him to lend her $100. photograph photographer photography photographic (adj.) take a photograph notorious (for ~) (-) famous for sth bad Rome is notorious for pickpockets. notoriously Highlighting aspects of lexical knowledge 4
  • 5. v ‘like’ ‘patent’ High-frequency items Low-frequency items What’s the difference between these words? … in terms of who needs to learn them? … and how they should be taught/learned? Somedepending on personal factors Everyone needs them Should be handled by training students in effective use of vocabulary learning strategies. Deserve explicitandthoroughattention in the classroom. 5
  • 6. 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=) 7
  • 8. Web Phrases OER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n67FBqBFm6I 8
  • 9. FLAX Web Pronoun Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=) 9
  • 10. Noticing Text Types – Issues of Register and Genre FLAX Web Pronoun Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=) 10
  • 11. FLAX Web Pronoun Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=) 11
  • 12. Web Pronouns Phrases OER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns4nXsZQmUA 12
  • 13. Kibbitzers (Tim John’s EAP pages) http://www.lexically.net/TimJohns/Kibbitzer/revis028.htm 13
  • 14. 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 14
  • 15. Web Collocations (fact vs idea) 15
  • 16. Compleat Lexical Tutor (Tom Cobb) http://www.lextutor.ca/
  • 17. Web Collocations OERhttp://www.lextutor.ca/vp/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyZgZhHMovI 17
  • 18. AWL Exercises (Nottingham) http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/index.htm 18
  • 19. UEFAP (Andy Gillett) http://www.uefap.com/index.htm 19
  • 20. Specific EAP vocab (UEFAP) http://www.uefap.com/vocab/vocfram.htm 20
  • 21. FLAX User guides & demos FLAX Web Collocations & Phrases Excercises (by Shaoqun Wu http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~shaoqun/tmp/instruction.html)
  • 22. User guides & demos http://flax.nzdl.org/resources/flax_video/flax_video.html
  • 24. Future of FLAX http://flax.nzdl.org/resources/flax_video/flax_video.html