Learning With MOOCs conference 2019 Milwaukee, USA

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Integrating lexical feature identification into MOOC
platforms for learning professional and academic English
Alannah Fitzgerald, Jemma König and Ian H. Witten
F-Lingo

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Receptive language learning support:
reading and listening
• MOOC content presents an unprecedented tranche of invaluable
transcribed linguistic material that could, we contend, be
exploited further for language learning purposes in domain-
specific areas for academic and professional purposes.
• Implemented as a Chrome extension, F-Lingo works on top of
FutureLearn – an online MOOC platform – to help you learn
about selected words, phrases, and concepts in the text you are
reading.
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Introducing F-Lingo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRGwuexvkus&feature=youtu.be

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Under the hood with FLAX for learning
phrases (Flexible Language Acquisition flax.nzdl.org)
• Learning Collocations Databases in FLAX
• Wikipedia corpus of contemporary English derived from three million
Wikipedia articles comprising three billion words
• Academic Collocations in English (ACE) corpora derived from 135 million
peer-reviewed open access research papers and metadata via the
COnnecting REpositories (CORE) aggregation service and application
programming interface (API) at the UK Open University’s Knowledge Media
Institute. https://core.ac.uk/
• PhD Abstract corpora of 9.8 million words derived from the metadata,
including the abstracts, of PhD theses awarded by UK universities and
managed by the Electronic Thesis Online Service (EThOS) at the British
Library
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• deadweight loss (Contract Law MOOC - edX)
• due process (English Common Law MOOC - Coursera)
• fixation requirement (CopyrightX networked course – Harvard X)
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English for specific purposes
Learning features of domain-specific terminology for academic or professional purposes

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• When learners click on concepts, F-Lingo
uses Wikipedia Miner to retrieve the first
paragraph and related articles, providing
learners with the disambiguated
description for the concept that was
clicked.
• D. Milne, and I. H. Witten, “An open-
source toolkit for mining Wikipedia,”
Artificial Intelligence, vol. 194, pp. 222-
239, 2013.
• http://wikipedia-miner.cms.waikato.ac.nz/index.html
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Wikipedia Miner

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Productive language learning support:
writing and speaking
• Potential for the transfer of domain-specific words,
phrases and concepts into online forum discussions.
• Potential for the transfer of domain-specific words,
phrases and concepts into written course requirements as
part of MOOC degree programs.
• Potential to build F-Lingo directly into MOOC platforms.
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