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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



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



Infinitive verb form with “to” Infinitive verb form without “to” Vs.

First Case: Syntax Structure



Why would a scholar like Prof. Du Boisuse both?



How should it be written so that

it conforms withstandard academic English?



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



Which is the correct form?



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.



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.



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.



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.



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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