Presented at the EAP Practitioner Professional Issues Meeting for BALEAP, June 9th 2012. Alannah Fitzgerald, Clare Carr, Terri Edwards, Jeff Davidson

1. Open text analysis tools &
techniques for the EAP
practitioner
Alannah Fitzgerald, Clare Carr, Terri Edwards, Jeff Davidson
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kool_skatkat/19287450

2. Overview
• Training with corpora & text analysis tools
– OER Cascade at Durham University
• Demonstration of tools & collections
– Lextutor, FLAX, AntConc
• Feed back & feed forward
– Teacher Training Videos with Russell Stannard
– Design-based research cycles
– BALEAP Web Resources Sub Committee

3. Lextutor
http://www.lextutor.ca
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4. Lextutor
• The Academic Word List (AWL)
• UEfAP vocabulary resources/exercises
• The VocabProfile text diagnostic tool
http://www.flickr.com/photos/loop_oh/4493818473/

5. AWL sublists
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6. UEfAP
http://www.uefap.com/index.htm
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7. AWL – published sample

9. AWL – student sample

11. VocabProfile edit & check
RE-VP

13. FLAX
• The Learning Collocations collection
• The British Academic Written English (BAWE)corpus
• Cherry picking – search, retrieve and store phrases

14. FLAX – Flexible Language Acquisition
Flexible Language Acquisition
library

15. BAWE

16. FLAX – Learning Collocations
(BNC, BWE, Wikipedia)

17. FLAX – Learning Collocations
(related collocations, definitions, topics)

18. Cherry picking phrases
Brainstorm keywords from your subject/topic area and
fill your cherry basket!

19. BAWE texts
http://tinyurl.com/d8l6c64

20. Noun phrase parsing
http://tinyurl.com/bldqha4

21. Wikify key words & phrases
http://tinyurl.com/cpwyefb

22. AntConc concordancing freeware
• Simple install
• Training videos
• The Keyword List tool

23. AntConc software
http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html

24. AntConc video tutorials
http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_index.html

25. AntConc keyword list tool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JvasTvQY7kU#!

26. http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com
Russell Stannard
Teacher Training Videos

27. Thank you
Email: fitzgerald@education.concordia.ca; c.c.barker@durham.ac.uk;
terri.edwards@dur.ac.uk; jeffrey.davidson@durham.ac.uk
Blog: Technology for Open English – Toying with Open E-resources
www.alannahfitzgerald.org
Twitter: @AlannahFitz
Slideshare:http://www.slideshare.net/AlannahOpenEd/