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Prizing Open and Enhancing Research Corpora for Language Teaching
1. Prizing Open and
Enhancing Research
Corpora for
Language Teaching
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pureminds/4536821738
Alannah Fitzgerald
2. Overview
âą Prizing open research corpora with OER for EAP/ELT
â FLAX collections with the BNC, BAWE, Wikimedia, Google N-
grams
â Higher Ed. podcast corpora (OER audio/video + transcripts)
âą Beyond the textbook and the dictionary
â More powerful = more examples of language in use across a
range of linked authentic language contexts
â More user-friendly than the standard concordancer interface
â More OER for learners and teachers
âą Independent study resources
âą Pathways for building OER collections
âą New audiences â linking formal and informal learning
â TTV, BALEAP, IATEFL, OERu
3. Linked resources = super resources
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aka_kath/185679814/
4. FLAX â Flexible Language Acquisition
Flexible Language Acquisition
library
6. Beyond the textbook and the dictionary
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rooners/5252360381/
7. Learning Collocations collection in FLAX
FLAX team collections building:
Shaoqun Wu, Ian Witten, Margaret Franken, Xiaofeng Yu â Waikato University
http://tinyurl.com/73zcgac
8. Wikipedia mining tools
(1) extracting collocations from Wikipedia
articles for the "related collocationsâ section of
the Learning Collocations collection.
(2) using a Wikipedia server running at the
University of Waikatoâs Computer Science
Department to retrieve definitions and related
topics for each query term.
9. When a user issues a query, e.g. âeconomic
bubbleâ, FLAX is doing the following:
(1) Grouping collocation types e.g. noun + noun
from the selected corpus (BNC, BAWE, Wikipedia)
10. (2) If the query term, e.g. âeconomic bubble" matches an article in Wikipedia,
collocations of that article are presented as related collocations, grouped by the
keywords of that article. The keywords are ranked using their term frequencyâ
inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) scores.
11. (3) Retrieves the definition of the query term (normally, the first sentence of the
matched article (e.g. the âeconomic bubble" article) from the Wikipedia server.
12. (4) Retrieve related articles for the âeconomic bubbleâ from the Wikipedia server
and present as ârelated topicsâ.
13. The BAWE text sub collections
http://tinyurl.com/cpwyefb
18. What are OER?
OER Commons:
âOpen Educational Resources are
teaching and learning materials that
you may freely use and reuse, without
charge. OER often have a Creative
Commons or GNU license that state
specifically how the material may be
used, reused, adapted, and shared.â
http://www.slideshare.net/tbirdcymru/itunes-u-corporate-channel-of-free-educ
resources
20. iTunesU OER Success Factors
Attractive to Usable Useful Used Sustainable
contributors
Profile â User Quality Download Over 800
Experience â material â numbers â universities â
âApple glossâ Search Consistency Teachers â Apple â
â function â â
International Apple mobile Copyright Personal â Benefit to
reach â â â ââ contributors/i
nstitution â
Linux, Feedback Not very
Android â ââ repurposable
ââ
Discoverability Community â
ââ
http://www.slideshare.net/tbirdcymru/itunes-u-corporate-channel-of-free-educational-resources
21. Itâs all in the downloads
University Downloads
Open University, UK Over 34 million since June 2008
University of Oxford Over 9 million since June 2008
Coventry University 2.5 million in 2010 alone
University of Warwick 1 million Jan â09 â June â10
http://www.slideshare.net/tbirdcymru/itunes-u-corporate-channel-of-free-educational-resources
22. BALEAP
Arguably, competencies with resources cut across the whole of the TEAP framework.
http://www.baleap.org.uk/baleap/parties-projects/eap-teacher-competencies/ 22
24. Publisher Priority: overreliance on textbooks
EAP vs ESAP
AWL vs AVLs
âą Going back to the
source with open
corpus-based
resources and projects
âą Keeping up with tools
and trends from the
research
http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/ProductDetails.aspx?productId=9780131833081#
30. Thank you
Email: fitzgerald@education.concordia.ca;
Blog: Technology for Open English â Toying with Open E-resources
www.alannahfitzgerald.org
Twitter: @AlannahFitz
Slideshare:http://www.slideshare.net/AlannahOpenEd/
Hinweis der Redaktion
Well-resourced â ou â ebooks, lectures and more â not able to identify individuals as made by teams Podcasts â oxford â 40% cc â highlighting stars China â Nottingham â campus at Ningbo instead of having to use youtube which is blocked uNow Representing the ethos of the institutions The best marketing is great learning material â Martin Bean
Ylva âOER mash-up for language learning Do we want to say something about discipline-spec discourse types in uni lectures/seminars? Turn taking in uni seminars â uni of Birmingham â looking at different knowledge domains â something I saw at CLC in B â ham in July E.g. medical seminars â long turn from sts presenting case studies with input from tutor and other sts at the end. Hard sciences have a lot more stop and check the facts built into exchanges btwn sts and tutors -
Name those symbols!
Obama pledged $50 million in 2009 to the OER cause, and another $2 billion in January 2011 â for career and training programmes to be administered and overseen largely thru local colleges, and all associated material must be produced under Creative Commons 3.0 license
A new method of giving individual items individual licenses in the metadata is apparently on its way
Youtube banned in China, Turkey, Bangladesh, Tunisia, Morocco â Iran flip-flops Star rating and comments but not many comments
Could be controversial if Diane is in the audience!