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Enhancing Language Learning Using Corpora
- 1. Using corpora to enhance language learning Michael Barlow
- 2. Overview wordlists collocation lists online concordancers text analysis software concordancers ParaConc and Collocate web-based exercises data-driven learning materials
- 3. Wordlists – general and specialised Wordlists have been around since before the invention of computers. General wordlists are used for curriculum development, textbook writing etc. Also possible to produce a word list for a reading (or a possibly textbook)
- 4. Wordlists – general Use existing wordlists such as West's General Service List and recent updates. Coxhead's Academic Wordlist. Kilgarriff's Wordlists based on the BNC.
- 8. Academic Word List • receptive list (based on morphological derivations) • the list excludes words found in non-academic texts (even if they occur in academic texts) • do we need subject or genre-specific wordlists? (Hyland)
- 9. Specialised Word List • Create a wordlist from a corpus (using concordancer or other utilities) • May need to create your own corpus – BootCaT ?? Silvia Bernadini
- 10. BootCaT
- 11. Vocab Profile • Tom Cobb's Vocab Profile • http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/eng/
- 12. Collocation lists • More difficult to find – use Collocation Dictionary?? • Biber's work on lexical bundles • Use concordancer or utility to create ngram lists or locate collocations • Collocate – shown below
- 14. Concordancers
- 16. Concordancers • Using a concordancer in the classroom • Corpus as a reference tool – query the corpus – can you say “the government are” – what is the difference between “for instance” and “for example” – Tim Johns – Data-driven Learning • (...caused economic development...)
- 17. Concordancers – text reconstruction exercises
- 20. Concordance data • DDL – highlighting/noticing/discovery learning • Highlight unexpected (for the learner) distinctions, uses etc. • Sequence data to build up knowledge
- 21. Parallel concordance data • Parallel concordance works on translation corpus • Students need to have same L1
- 22. Concordance data issues • KWIC format • Google effect • Data overload • Reauthenticating data – Sabine Braun – includes discourse perspective (Why did the speaker use that form?)
- 23. Parallel Corpora – DDL (CHUJO, Kiyomi)
- 24. Parallel Corpora – DDL (Chujo, Kiyomi)
- 25. Collocate Software to extract collocations/terms Word search + Span (2 words, 3 words etc.) n-gram (bigram, trigram) list Full extract -- collocations in a corpus
- 27. Search for analysis (Span = 2)
- 30. analysis - MI
- 32. Trigram search
- 33. Trigram -- by freq
- 35. Trigram -- by MI
- 36. Using batch mode –
- 37. Corpuslab.com Familiar exercise authoring Currently offline Aims avoid duplication of tasks -- identifying common collocations in Business English Provide corpus/analysis resources Bring corpus resources together with familiar exercise authoring
- 39. Student View
- 40. Student View
- 41. Student View
- 42. Student View
- 45. Teacher view
- 46. Teacher view
- 47. Teacher view
- 50. Resources Teacher-generated resources uploaded frequency lists worksheets
- 51. Tracking Teachers can track their exercises “Class teachers” track students in their class
- 52. Tracking
- 53. Report for exercise Cat1
- 55. School view Register as a school Create class names Assign teachers to classes Track students in classes
- 56. School view
- 57. School view
- 58. Resources Site resources corpora and simple concordancer text analysis utilities
- 59. Text analysis utilities Create frequency lists Text analysis in terms of frequency bands Collocational analysis of texts
- 63. Corpora Teacher/Author resource Sample corpus -- CSPAE Add other corpora such as MICASE Create various options for searching that make use of corpus annotation
- 64. Simple searching
- 67. Aims Create a language learning site Encourage and facilitate use of corpus data Matching exercise (up to 5 columns) Provide access to word lists etc Provide text analysis tools
- 68. Aims Use traditional exercise types that teachers are familiar with Give examples of creative uses of these standard exercises
- 70. Thank you