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Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador
Instituto Pedagógico Dr. Luís Beltrán Prieto Figueroa
Departamento de Idiomas Modernos
Núcleo de Investigación para el Estudio y Enseñanza de Lenguas
Prof. Chinger Zapata
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Overview
• A brief contextualization of ICT and CALL
• A brief description of the tools:
• Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
• AntConc
• Cases analyzed with COCA
• Cases analyzed with AntConc
• Implications for Academic Writing in English
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Infinitive verb form with “to” Infinitive verb form without “to” Vs.
First Case: Syntax Structure
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Why would a scholar like Prof. Du Boisuse both?
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How should it be written so that
it conforms withstandard academic English?
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In the first definition PROVISIONALLY
has been written between commas.
In this case, it has been
written without the commas.
Second Case: Punctuation
Analysis of provisionally
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Which is the correct form?
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Third Case: Discourse Markers
Analysis of That I s
According to authors like Martin Zorraquino and Portoles (1999) and
Trujillo (2003), THAT IS is an appositive discourse marker.
APPOSITIVES are used to introduce an explanation or a clarification.The most common ones are that is, in other words, for example, etc.
- That is. It is used to give more exact information about something
or to correct a statement. Example:
- One solution would be to change the shape of the screen, that is, to
make it wider.
- Languages are taught by the direct method, that is, without using
the student's own language.
- I loved her - that is, I thought I did.
- The fare is reduced for children, that is, anyone under 15 years old.
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17 Cases between commas / Example:
583. If these errors result from overgeneralization of thecausative/inchoative alternation, one should also find transitive (non-
alternating) verbs used intransitively, that is, anticausative errors.
This case is used to introduce a clarification of one aspect
referred to in the previous segment.
15 Cases between semi colon (;) and comma (,) / Example:
582. English orthography, in contrast, is a phonologically deep
system; that is, although governed by phonemic constraints, it tends
to preserve morphological information at the expense of
phonological transparency. This case is used to introduce an
explanation of one aspect referred to in the previous segment.
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3 Cases between period (.) and comma (,) / Example:
596. Corpus linguistics (CL) can pinpoint areas of interest for
further/closer analysis (see also Mautner 2007). That is, emerging
patterns (e.g., keywords, collocations) lead to the examination oftheir (expanded) concordances, or, when needed, the examination of
whole texts. This case is used to introduce an explanation of the
whole previous segment.
4 Cases between dash (-) and comma (,) / Example:610. In this study, the rationale for the source of texts (UK
newspapers) was made explicit in the project aims, and the corpus
was derived through a query arrived at via an algorithm developed
during the initial phase of the project (see Gabrielatos 2007), whicharguably ensured that the corpus was representative — that is, it
comprised articles relevant to (issues related to) RASIM. This case
is used to either introduce a clarification or an explanation of one
aspect referred to in the previous segment. It is, apparently, used
as a wildcard.
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Four Case: Vocabulary Choice
Analysis of Planification
Summary: English Language Curriculum Evaluation in Oman
Worldwide, teaching styles, curriculum design & development and
the comprehension of the learning process are being evaluated and
improved by educationalists in order to, as has become necessary,
update the methodology used. The lack of structure in the Ministry of
Education in Oman has impeded the development of curriculum
evaluation. Curriculum evaluation focuses on gathering and analyzing
relevant data in order to determine the effectiveness of the curriculum
in order for it to be improved. This evaluation must take place bothinternally and externally, where both the outcome and the process of
planification of the curriculum are taken into account. In order
to evaluate the situation in Oman, a document analysis method was
applied to address the main problems at hand.
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Because:
- Specialized books do not always have all the answers regarding
language usage,
- Many specialized books have fake examples of language,
- Teachers do not know everything,
- Not matter how wide dictionaries may be, they do not hold all the
data,
I recommend:
- using technology to learn about languages.
- searching by yourself with seriousness.
- using corpora and software to rely on authentic material.- you to be responsible with your search results.
- self-instruction via technology.
- exploiting technology to learn for you and to teach others
- RESEARCHING IN ORDER TO LEARN BY CONSTRUCTING,
NOT JUST BY ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE.
Final Considerations
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From ICT to CALL
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