Attendees of the 2013 TESOL Int'l Convention and Language Expo present information about a couple sessions at the convention. http://eslcrystal.wordpress.com/

1. TESOL 2013: Review,
Reflections, and
Directions for the Future
Crystal Rose, Iva Skobic, Leah Kronick
and Sarah Selz

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Four days
More than 6,500 attendees
Three days of concurrent sessions
Four charming MA-ESL students

3. TESOL 2013
Dallas, Texas

4. One research-based presentation &
one practice-based presentation
Using Corpora in Effectively Treating Lexicogrammatical Errors in ESL Writing
Dilin Liu, University of Alabama
Making Room for Fluency Training in Reading
Instruction
Fredricka Stoller, Northern Arizona University
William Grabe, Northern Arizona University

5. Using Corpora in Effectively Treating
Lexico-grammatical Errors in L2 Writing
Background
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Lexico-grammatical mistakes are common
among L2 learners
Students learn vocabulary and grammar
simultaneously
Corpus data can be used to help students
understand lexico-grammatical errors (Liu and
Jiang, 2009)

6. Using Corpora in Effectively Treating
Lexico-grammatical Errors in L2 Writing
Participants
Four sections of ESL freshmen in the US
TOEFL scores = 500+
Participants were introduced to COCA
search functions early in the semester &
used COCA to answer questions in their own
writing assignments throughout the term
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7. Using Corpora in Effectively Treating
Lexico-grammatical Errors in L2 Writing
Method
Learners were given a questionnaire with 40
error correction exercises to complete.
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Half of the items were to be corrected by the learner
alone, and half were to be completed with the use of
COCA.
Types of errors included: collocations, use of
prepositions, word meanings, register information,
use of articles, and subject/verb agreement.
Learners were then asked to report whether
using COCA was helpful for the items or not.

8. Using Corpora in Effectively Treating
Lexico-grammatical Errors in L2 Writing
Results
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Learners reported that COCA was most useful in
correcting collocation errors and least useful in
correcting errors in subject/verb agreement.
Learners completed 60% more corrections with the
use of COCA than they did without.
Learners also correctly identified and corrected
errors more effectively when they used COCA in all
categories except for article usage errors.

9. Using Corpora in Effectively Treating
Lexico-grammatical Errors in L2 Writing
Takeaways
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COCA can be a useful tool to give learners if they
are trained on how to use it to correct their own
errors- both inductively and deductively
COCA is not useful for identifying or correcting
article usage errors
COCA is only useful if students are able to identify
the type of error they are coming across
Using COCA can take away experience of students
making corrections themselves(instead of looking
up a correction)

10. Making Room for Fluency Training in the
Reading Classroom
Background
Rapid and prosodically appropriate reading
Accuracy
Assumes comprehension
Defined characteristic of skilled readers
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Word recognition, vocabulary, sentence processing,
and motivation
Students who do not read fluently will spend
more time on decoding than they will on
understanding the meaning of the text.

11. Making Room for Fluency Training in the
Reading Classroom
Word Recognition Exercises
(see handout 1)
Goal is to increase speed and accuracy over
time
Promotes word recognition (not vocabulary)
Phrase Recognition Exercises
(see handout 1)
Promotes collocation recognition (not
vocabulary)
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12. Making Room for Fluency Training in the
Reading Classroom
Semantic Connection Exercises
(see handout 2)
Goal is to match key words with terms in the
same semantic categories
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Lexical Access Fluency Exercises
Goal is to match key words with meanings
Focus on synonyms
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13. Making Room for Fluency Training in the
Reading Classroom
Oral Reading Exercises
(see handout 2)
Goal is to increase speed and accuracy over
time
Texts that have already been covered for
comprehension
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Choral reading, echo reading, radio reading,
oral paired reading/re-reading, reader's theater

14. Making Room for Fluency Training in the
Reading Classroom
Implementing fluency training in my
classroom...
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Fairly easy to keep track of progress
Quick and easy activity
Brings out questions related to pronunciation
and vocabulary (not goal of tasks, but added
benefit at the lower level)
Students have fun?