harvesting english
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Corpus-based Open Educational Resources for English for Academic Purposes. Focusing on the FLAX and Lextutor web-based tools and language collections.TRANSCRIPT
Harvesting English
CC-BY Alannah Fitzgerald
Tricky structures in writing
It is significant to have comprehension of its causes…
Google *FLAX language*http://tinyurl.com/7ea4tzq
FLAX Web Phrases search
Not a passive voice structure?
Active voice structure = very frequent
FLAX Web Phrases results
An issue of collocation?
Web Collocations in FLAX
Substitute verb + its causes
Harvesting FLAX
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uwgbadmissions/6032574436/
Tricky structures in writing…
There is a strong link between the misuse of women and child abuse…
*+of women*
Tricky structures in writing…
Medical researches can help to reduce the effect of those negative factors…
*medical researches*
*medical research*
*researches* in the BNC – archaic?
Reporting verbs analyses/analysed compares/compared comments/commented concludes/concluded criticises/criticised demonstrates/demonstrated discusses/discussed illustrates/illustrated indicates/indicated notes/noted investigates/investigated evaluates/evaluated estimates/estimated
observes/observed points out/pointed out reports/reported shows/showed suggests/suggested validates/validated verifies/verified argues/argued disputes/disputed concedes/conceded believes/believed recognises/recognised predicts/predicted
The grammar of reporting verbs
a) Verb + nounEdwards (2012) discusses the idea that more grammar teaching is necessary in EAP.
b) Verb + that + sentenceFitzgerald (2012) proposes that more grammar
teaching is necessary in EAP.c) Verb + ‘wh’ word + sentence
Kendall (2012) demonstrates why more grammar teaching is necessary in EAP.
Harvesting structures
Verb + noun Verb + that + sentence
Verb + ‘wh’ word + sentence
Sharing your harvest
Web Pronouns Phrases OER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns4nXsZQmUA 22
Beginning sentences with it…
In the present tense you can use an adjective to express your opinion of an author’s fact, idea or opinion:
It is interesting/unlikely/probable that the number of men who smoke is on the rise.
Beginning sentences with it…
In the present perfect tense you can use reporting verbs subject to the restrictions of grammar which we discussed in the previous activity:
It has been pointed out/concluded/acknowledged by Blake (2009) that the number of men who smoke is on the rise.
It pronoun phrase harvest time!
Web Collocations OERhttp://www.lextutor.ca/vp/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyZgZhHMovI 27
Essay check - AWL sublists
10/04/23 28http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/eng/
AWL sublists
10/04/23 29http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist/sublists.aspx
Student abstract – AWL = 6.63%
Every country wants to become a superpower in economics or politics. Now, America is the superpower over all of the world, making rules and games that other countries usually have to follow due to the decision from America. However, who will be the next economic superpower in the world that can order another country? Maybe China or India will be the next economic star. This article will display…
VocabProfile check – AWL = 7.88%
Every country would like to establish themselves as a dominant superpower in the area of economics or politics. Now, America is the superpower over all of the world, making rules and games that other countries usually have to follow due to the decision from America. However, who will be the next economic superpower in the world that can order another country?
VocabProfile edit & check
AWL resources
10/04/23 33http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist/links.aspx
UEFAP (Andy Gillett)
10/04/23 34http://www.uefap.com/index.htm
Specific EAP vocab (UEFAP)
10/04/23 35http://www.uefap.com/vocab/vocfram.htm