This is the slide deck for the TESL Ontario DDL webinar presented on November 22nd, 2017. The concordancing tool used in WordSift. There are seven suggested DDL activities in this session. It is stressed that student can, at times, be charged with discovering the rules and meaning of terms in a foreign language,

1. Data-Driven Learning Lite

2. John Allan
Currently in Qatar
Instructor
LO developer
Teacher trainer
Tech. writer
TESL
Ont.
Since
1988

3. Session path
•Concordancing
•WordSift features
•DDL process
•Sample activities
•Questions?

4. Have you ever tried DDL with your students?

5. Without data, we only have intuition
about how language works.

6. •Identify
•Patterns
•Collocations
•Contexts
•Frequencies
•Cultural factors
Examining linguistic data

7. What is DDL?
•Derive definitions & classifications

8. So how is this done?

9. 1 -- corpus

10. 2 --concordancer

11. 3-- concordance

12. concordance

13. 1. Concordancer + Corpus = Concordance
2. Analysis
3. Conclusions

14. Data Driven Learning
•Students generate a concordance
•Student derive conclusions

15. The DDL Process – using WordSift

16. 1 - Corpus
•Darwin and Evolution

17. 2 - Concordancer

18. 3 – Concordance results –tag cloud

19. 4 – Concordance results –word visualization

20. 5 – Concordance results – images

21. 6 – Concordance results –terms in context

22. Watch this short demonstration of WordSift
features…
https://youtu.be/_JdMy5ZVP10

23. It is your turn to generate a concordance

24. With WordSift students can…
• Run a concordance on a corpus
• Identify (select) vocabulary
• Sort vocabulary
• Locate word frequencies
• Locate collocates
• Identify definitions from context, images, videos
• Delineate between rare and common words

25. Activity: Your Country
• Students generate a concordance on their homeland
• Creativity with the Tag Cloud
• Print/project and share
• Let’s try this
1. Open Wordsift (or click on the WordSift logo)
2. Type country name in “Article from Wikipedia”
3. Select an item from the list
4. Click the SIFT button

26. Example 1: Pre-Reading
• Students run a concordance on a story or article
• Identify key words
• Sort these term by frequency
• In pairs generate definitions of these terms
• Results are shared
• Student read the article/ story

27. Example 2: Teacher directed
• The instructor provides a vocabulary list
• Students run concordances on different corpora
• They derive definitions or usage rules from the results
• Results are shared and discussed

28. Example 3: Genre vocabulary
• The instructor assigns genres (example: sports, theatre, geography)
• Student run concordances on suitable corpora
• They produce a vocabulary list in their assigned genre
• Results are shared as a presentation

29. Activity: Pre-Writing
• Students generate a vocabulary list on a writing topic
• Let’s try this
1. Open Wordsift (or click on the WordSift logo)
2. Type “topic” name in “Article from Wikipedia”
3. Select an item from the list
4. Click the SIFT button
5. Click on the “Show Cloud settings” button
6. Student examine vocabulary that may be used in a written task.

30. Example 4: Idioms
• The instructor assigns idioms
• Students run concordances on corpora
• They generate definitions of the idioms
• Results are shared

31. Example 5: Self-concordance
• Students run a concordance on their own writing (paste the text)
• Identify possible patterns
• Identify possible synonyms or collocates
• Rewrite the passage/ work

32. Thank You
• Questions or other ideas?