표 2012. 12.7

1. 영어 학습자들의 효과적인 온라인
코퍼스 활용 지도
Effective online corpus training
for language learners
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2. Effective online corpus training
for language learners
 Needs for concordancing training
- Promoting the use of corpus in language learning
- Online corpora as language learning tools
- The effective hands-on concordancing for inductive
language
learning (Boulton, 2009a, 2009b; Cobb, 1997; Cresswell,
2007; Johns & King, 1991)
- Difficulty of corpus use by language learners
(Bernardini, 2002; Boulton, 2009a, 2009b; Chambers, 2007;
Farr, 2008)
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3. Effective online corpus training
for language learners
 Needs for concordancing training
Suggesting sufficient training for utilizing tools
as a pre-condition for successful use of learners,
hands-on concordancing
(Boulton, 2009a; Cheng, Warren & Xun-feng,
2003; Miceli & Kennedy, 2002)
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4. Effective online corpus training
for language learners
 Purpose for this research
- Proposing effective methods of concordance
training for university students
- Providing concordance materials and tools
for corpus learners and instruction guidelines
for corpus trainers.
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5. Effective online corpus training
for language learners
• Backgrounds of training methods
- Different types of concordance activities
(Aston, 2002, p.10)
1) Form-focused activity: Data-Driven Learning
2) Meaning-focused activity: Data-driven cultural learning
3) Skill-focused activity: a bottom-up variety for reading skills
and reading strategies
4) Reference activity: reading, writing, and translation
5) Browsing activity: explorations of the corpus
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6. Effective online corpus training
for language learners
 Backgrounds of training methods
- Different approaches of concordance activities
1) Form-focused & Meaning-focused corpus search
(Gardner & Davies, 2007)
2) Inductive & Deductive concordance activities
(Cresswell, 2007; Johns & King, 1991; Kim & Chun, 2008)
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7. Effective online corpus training
for language learners
 Concordance workshop
1. Participants
- 27 undergraduate students enrolled in English
Education department
- No experience in corpus use
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8. Effective online corpus training
for language learners
 Concordance workshop
2. Materials
1) Online corpora
Online corpus Number of selection Size of corpus Genre/mode Subscription
of corpus (number of token) of corpus
Corpus Concordance 23 From 3,000 to 3 Diverse/Written Free
English millions
VLC Web 22 From 99,000 to 1.4 Diverse/Written Free
Concordancer millions
BYU-BNC 1 100 millions Diverse/ Free
Spoken & written
JustTheWord 1 80 millions Diverse/ Free
Spoken & written
MICASE 1 1.8 millions Diverse/Spoken Free
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9. Effective online corpus training
for language learners
 Concordance workshop
2. Materials
2) Concordance game (deductive activity):
Diverse exercises in 8 stages, practicing how to use
wildcard (asterisk mark*)and POS (part of speech) in
a concordancer/ corpus
3) 3 tasks (Inductive activity)
undertaking independent corpus investigation
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10. Effective online corpus training
for language learners
 Concordance workshop
3. Procedures
- Six class hours for two weeks,
as a part of a required course
- Two stages:
Tool training & Applications of the tools
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11. Effective online corpus training
for language learners
 Concordance workshop
3. Procedures
Procedures Contents Techniques
Week 1 Exercises for
(2 Lessons, Tool training Corpora & Online technical functions
3 class hours) concordancers (individual
practice)
Week 2 Application of Hands-on Concordance
(2 Lessons, concordancing Concordancing exercises/games Deductive
3 class hours) (individual/group activities
work)
Week 3 - Week 8 Student Concordance tasks semi-controlled & Inductive
(each task in independent free searches activities
two weeks) concordance
investigation
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12. Effective online corpus training
for language learners
 Evaluation
1. Survey
Survey questions N Min Max M SD
Q.1 The concordancers/ online corpora 27 3 5 3.78 .698
were easy to use.
Q.2 The concordance tasks were easy to 27 2 4 3.00 .679
undertake.
Q.3 I used online corpora a lot when
doing vocabulary assignments in this 27 2 5 4.37 .742
course.
Q.4 Concordance/ concordancing were 27 1 5 3.78 1.013
helpful for my vocabulary learning.
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13. Effective online corpus training
for language learners
 Evaluation
2. Focus group interviews
- Three groups of seven to ten
- Interviewing each group for 40 minutes
- Semi-structured, concentrating on the issues:
a. Usefulness of online concordance tools
b. Difficulties encountered in use of the tools
c. Usages of the tools
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14. Effective online corpus training
for language learners
 Evaluation
2. Focus group interviews
- 17 students: all students in Group 1; half in
Group 2; 2 in Group 3, had positive attitudes
toward use of tools.
- 5 in Group 3 missed the part of training, failed to
complete the concordance tasks.
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15. Effective online corpus training
for language learners
 Conclusions
- Sufficient practice for beginner users to learn
functions of online corpora
- Effective ways to help them to understand how
to use corpus for their language learning
Importance of intensive, effective training
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16. Effective online corpus training
for language learners
 Suggestions
Stages Characteristics Instructional guides
Preliminary Ignorant of concordance and research tools; need Provide intensive tool
stage training to raise awareness regarding the use training
of concordance in language learning
Beginning to learn concordancing, but not Guide using
Initial stage understanding essential concepts of inductive controlled activities;
learning; using other sources instead of corpus; give feedback to keep
speculating on the conclusions them on track
Skillful but no undertaking in-depth searches on
Developmental the target words; partial understanding of inductive Give feedback track
keep them on
to
stage learning; weak conclusions; focusing mainly on
syntactic features and partly on meanings
Skillful, and undertaking in-depth research on target Expand receptive
words; good understanding regarding the essential vocabulary
Expert stage concepts of inductive learning; making evidence- knowledge to
proved, insightful conclusions by both syntactic and productive
semantic analysis on target words vocabulary
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17. Effective online corpus training
for language learners
Q&A
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18. “Chun, Sooin. (2012). Effective Concordance Workshop for
Corpus Learners. Modern English Education, 13(4), 67-88.”
Thank you
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