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 1 Tom Cobb Didactique des langues Université du Québec à Montréal [email protected]
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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
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-