in ELT All easy to find and use on wwwlextutorca just add imagination March 30 Fri 1011h30 Colloquium Using corpus resources and findings in ELT 1 Tom Cobb Didactique des langues ID: 1044605
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1. 10 practical uses of a million-word corpus in ELT(All easy to find and use on www.lextutor.ca – just add imagination)March 30, Fri, 10-11h30 Colloquium: Using corpus resources and findings in ELT 1Tom CobbDidactique des languesUniversité du Québec à Montréal
2. 1. The obvious use – source of examples for the teacherTeacher finds examples to show studentsWordsStructuresDiscourse featuresFind sentences and texts for test questions within a rough-tuned level within a domain2
3. Display words, collocations, structures in classroom3
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8. Conclusion: most of “What it means to know a word” can be shown in a million-word corpus8Nation’s 18 kindsof word knowledge
9. 2. Data-Driven Error Analysis9
10. … integrated as writing error feedback10
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12. 3-4-5 : Corpus as a reading resourceExpand the textVia concordancer hooked up to learner’s textWith payoff in strategy development
13. 3. Give lexical info while readingOr, develop lexical strategies while readingOr, eta-lexical competence… etc13
14. 4. Encourage use of context before dictionary14
15. 5. Show if word is worth learning15
16. 6. In word focus activities…Auto-generate semantic cuing16
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18. 7. Facilitate collaborative learningSince there are too many words to learn alone…18
19. 8. Facilitate transfer of word knowledgeto novel context19
20. 9. Facilitate quick-scope of a k-level20
21. 9. Facilitate quick-scope of a k-level21
22. 10. Give a snapshot of a set of learner essaysError patterns?Recently learned words are coming through in production?New structures coming through?22
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24. Any research supporting all this?24COCONCORDANCE AS A READING RESOURCECobb, T., Greaves, C., & Horst, M. Can the rate of lexical acquisition from reading be increased? An experiment in reading French with a suite of on-line resources. In P. Raymond & C. Cornaire, Regards sur la didactique des langues secondes. Montréal: Éditions logiqueCobb, T. (2009). Internet and literacy in the developing world: Delivering the teacher with the text. In K. Parry (Ed.), Literacy for All in Africa Vol. 2: Reading in Africa: Beyond the School. Kampala: Fountain/African Book Collective.CONCORDANCE AS WRITING FEEDBACKGaskell, D., & Cobb, T. (2004) Can learners use concordance feedback for writing errors? System, 32(3), 301-319CONCORDANCE INVESTIGATION OF LEARNER PRODUCTIONCobb, T. (2003). Analyzing late interlanguage with learner corpora: Quebec replications of three European studies. Canadian Modern Language Review, 59(3), 393-423. CONCORDANCE FOR SCOPING OUT A K-LEVELCobb, T. (1997). Is there any measurable learning from hands-on concordancing? System 25 (3), 301-315.Cobb, T. & Horst, M (2011). Does Word Coach coach words? CALICO Journal, 28(3), 639-661. MORE AT LEXTUTOR.CA/CV/