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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
Tom CobbDidactique des langues
Université du Québec à Montré[email protected]
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1. The obvious use – source of examples for the teacher
• Teacher finds examples to show students– Words– Structures– Discourse features
• Texts for test questions – within a rough-tuned level – within a domain
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Display words, collocations, structures in classroom
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Conclusion: most of “What it means to know a word” can be shown in a million-word corpus
Nation’s 18 kindsof word knowledge
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2. Data-Driven Error Analysis
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… integrated as writing error feedback
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3-4-5 : Corpus as a reading resource
Expand the text• Via concordancer hooked up to learner’s text– With payoff in strategy development
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3. Give lexical info while reading
• Or, develop lexical strategies while reading• Or, eta-lexical competence… etc
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4. Encourage use of context before dictionary
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5. Show if word is worth learning
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6. In word focus activities…• Auto-generate semantic cuing
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7. Facilitate collaborative learning• Since there are too many words to learn alone…
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8. Facilitate transfer of word knowledge• to novel context
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9. Facilitate quick-scope of a k-level
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9. Facilitate quick-scope of a k-level
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10. Give a snapshot of a set of learner essays
• Error patterns?• Recently learned words are coming
through in production?• New structures coming through?
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Any research supporting all this?• CONCORDANCE AS A READING RESOURCE
– Cobb, 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 logique
– Cobb, 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 FEEDBACK– Gaskell, D., & Cobb, T. (2004) Can learners use concordance feedback for writing errors?
System, 32(3), 301-319
• CONCORDANCE INVESTIGATION OF LEARNER PRODUCTION– Cobb, 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-LEVEL– Cobb, 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/