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Maximizing a Million-Word Corpus in ELT

Learn practical applications of a million-word corpus in English language teaching, including error analysis, reading strategies, lexical info, and collaborative learning. Enhance teaching with concordance resources. Explore ways to boost word knowledge and student engagement using corpus findings. Colloquium details on lextutor.ca.

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Maximizing a Million-Word Corpus in ELT

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  1. Tom CobbDidactique des langues Université du Québec à Montréal cobb.tom@uqam.ca 10 practical uses of a million-word corpus in ELT(All easy to find and use on www.lextutor.ca– just add imagination) March 30, Fri, 10-11h30 Colloquium: Using corpus resources and findings in ELT

  2. 1. The obvious use – source of examples for the teacher • Teacher finds examples to show students • Words • Structures • Discourse features • Texts for test questions • within a rough-tuned level • within a domain

  3. Display words, collocations, structures in classroom

  4. Conclusion: most of “What it means to know a word” can be shown in a million-word corpus Nation’s 18 kinds of word knowledge

  5. 2. Data-Driven Error Analysis

  6. … integrated as writing error feedback

  7. 3-4-5 : Corpus as a reading resource Expand the text • Via concordancer hooked up to learner’s text • With payoff in strategy development

  8. 3. Give lexical info while reading • Or, develop lexical strategieswhilereading • Or, eta-lexical competence… etc

  9. 4. Encourage use of context before dictionary

  10. 5. Show if word is worth learning

  11. 6. In word focus activities… • Auto-generate semantic cuing

  12. 7. Facilitate collaborative learning • Since there are too many words to learn alone…

  13. 8. Facilitate transfer of word knowledge • to novel context

  14. 9. Facilitate quick-scope of a k-level

  15. 9. Facilitate quick-scope of a k-level

  16. 10. Give a snapshot of a set of learner essays • Error patterns? • Recently learned words are coming through in production? • New structures coming through?

  17. Any research supporting all this? • CONCORDANCE AS A READING RESOURCE • Cobb, T., Greaves, C., & Horst, M. Can the rate of lexical acquisition from reading be increased? An experiment in reading French with a suite of on-line resources. In P. Raymond & C. Cornaire, Regards sur la didactique des langues secondes. Montréal: Éditions logique • Cobb, T. (2009). Internet and literacy in the developing world: Delivering the teacher with the text. In K. Parry (Ed.), Literacy for All in Africa Vol. 2: Reading in Africa: Beyond the School. Kampala: Fountain/African Book Collective. • CONCORDANCE AS WRITING FEEDBACK • Gaskell, D., & Cobb, T. (2004) Can learners use concordance feedback for writing errors?System, 32(3), 301-319 • CONCORDANCE INVESTIGATION OF LEARNER PRODUCTION • Cobb, T. (2003). Analyzing late interlanguage with learner corpora: Quebec replications of three European studies. Canadian Modern Language Review, 59(3), 393-423.   • CONCORDANCE FOR SCOPING OUT A K-LEVEL • Cobb, T. (1997). Is there any measurable learning from hands-on concordancing?System 25 (3), 301-315. • Cobb, T. & Horst, M (2011). Does Word Coachcoach words?CALICO Journal, 28(3), 639-661. MORE AT LEXTUTOR.CA/CV/

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