This document provides an overview of resources for teaching English for academic purposes (EAP), including lexical knowledge and vocabulary. It summarizes various online tools for concordancing, academic word lists, collocations, pronouns, and other aspects of EAP. Examples of tools discussed are FLAX, Lexical Tutor, Nottingham AWL exercises, and UEFAP. The document also links to video guides and exercises for using these EAP teaching resources.

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

23. Teacher-created exercises http://flax.nzdl.org/resources/flax_video/flax_video.html

24. Future of FLAX http://flax.nzdl.org/resources/flax_video/flax_video.html