Alannah Fitzgerald Shaoqun Wu Ian H. WiAen Xiaofeng Yu · 2017. 4. 24. · Xiaofeng Yu The eBook of FLAX “FLAX (Flexible Language Acquisition) is both a vision and a tool that you

TheOpen-SourceFLAXLanguageSystem

AlannahFitzgeraldShaoqunWuIanH.WiAenXiaofengYu

TheeBookofFLAX

“FLAX (Flexible Language Acquisition) is both a vision and a tool that you can use for language learning. The Web contains innumerable language activities, quizzes, and games, but they are fixed: the activities are cast in stone and the material is chosen by others. Our vision is to put the control back where it belongs, in the hands of teachers and learners.”

WHOAREWEINTHISFLAXRESEARCH&DEVELOPMENTCOLLABORATION?

FLAXLanguageatWaikatoUniversity

h8p://flax.nzdl.orgFLAXimagebypermissionofnon-commercialreusebyJaneGalloway

FLAXLanguageProjectattheGreenstoneDigitalLibraryLab,

WaikatoUniversityNZ

ProfessorIanWiAenFLAXProjectLead

DrShaoqunWuFLAXProjectLeadResearcher&Developer

ResearchonOpenFLAXCollecSons

hAp://oerresearchhub.org/

AlannahFitzgeraldOpenFellowwithOERRHFLAXLanguage&OpenEducaSonResearcher

OPENSOURCELANGUAGETOOLSDEVELOPMENT

FLAX Digital Library

Collections

Collocations database

Glossary

Open Educational Resources

Google-esqueInterfaceDesigns

Designedforthenon-expertcorpususer,namely:learners,teachers,subjectacademics,instrucSonaldesignersandlanguageresourcedevelopers.

IntroducingtheWikipediaMinerToolkit(Milne&WiAen,2013)

BuildingInteracSvityintoFLAXLanguageCollecSons

FLAXAcSviSesConSnued

FreeAndroidApps

FLAXAcrossPla`orms•  FLAXWebsiteflax.nzdl.orgforhosSngopenonlinelanguagecollecSons•  BuildingdirectlyontotheWebwithOER

•  FLAXmulSlingualopen-sourcesobwarefordownload•  SetupyourownFLAXserveronlineor;•  BuildcollecSonsofflineforuseonyourPC

•  FLAXAndroidappfordownload•  Interactwithgame-basedFLAXcollecSonswhileonthego

•  FLAXforMOODLEplug-infordownload•  FLAXforMOOCPla`orms?•  FLAXinconjuncSonwithtranslaSontechnologies?

DOMAIN-SPECIFICOPENLANGUAGECOLLECTIONSBUILDING

TheeBookofFLAX“FLAXenablesteacherstobuildbespokelibrariesveryeasily.Itisbuiltuponpowerfuldigitallibrarytechnology,andprovidesaccesstovastlinguisScresourcescontainingcountlessexamplesofactual,authenSc,usageincontemporarytext.ButteacherscanalsobuildcollecVonsusingtheirownmaterial,focusingonlanguagelearninginaparVculardomain(e.g.,business,law)ormoVvaVngstudentsbyusingtextfromaparVcularcontext(e.g.,countryorregion,commoninterests).”

WorkingwithFullTexts

WikifyYourCollecSons

Domain-specificCollocaSons

WefocusonlexicalcollocaSonswithnoun-basedstructuresbecausetheyarethemostsalientandimportantpaAernsindomain-specifictext.CollocaSonsfromtheEnglishCommonLawMOOC:•  verb+noun e.g.abolishjudicialreview•  noun+noun e.g.precedentcase•  adjecSve+noun e.g.commonlaw•  noun+of+noun e.g.courtofappeal

LexicalBundles“Lexical bundles” are mulS-word sequences with disSncSvesyntacScpaAernsanddiscoursefuncSonsthatarecommonlyused in academic prose (Biber& Barbieri, 2007; Biber et al,2003,2004).BundlesfromBriSshLawReportCorpus(BLaRC):•  nounphrase+of e.g.Inthecourseofhis•  preposiSonalphrase+ofe.g.onthepartofthe•  it+verb/adjecSvephrasee.g.itiscommongroundthat•  be+noun/adjecSvephrasee.g.betakenintoaccountin•  verbphrase+thate.g.Thereisnodoubtthat

LexicalBundles

CollocaSonsWithinCollecSons

LinkingtotheFLAXLearningCollocaSonsCollecSon(Wikipedia,BNC,BAWE)

GoodOl’Part-Of-SpeechTagging

References•  Biber,D.,Conrad,S.,&Cortes,V.(2003).Lexicalbundlesin

speechandwriSng:aniniSaltaxonomy.InA.Wilson,P.Rayson,&T.McEnery(Eds.),Corpuslinguis<csbythelune:AfestschribforGeoffreyLeech(pp.71–92).Frankfurt/Main:PeterLang.

•  Biber,D.,Conrad,S.,&Cortes,V.(2004).Ifyoulookat...:lexicalbundlesinuniversityteachingandtextbooks.AppliedLinguis<cs,25,371–405.Biber,D.(2006).UniversityLanguage,Acorpus-basedstudyofspokenandwriEenregisters.JohnBenjamins,Amsterdam.

•  Biber,D.,BarbieriF.(2007).LexicalbundlesinuniversityspokenandwriAenregisters.EnglishforSpecificPurpose,26,263–286.

•  Milne,D.&WiAen,I.H.(2013).Anopen-sourcetoolkitforminingWikipedia.Ar<ficialIntelligence,194,222-239.

LookOutforFLAXinAprilwithRussellStannard’s-TeacherTrainingVideos

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com

ThankYou

FLAXLanguageProject&SobwareDownloads:hAp://flax.nzdl.org/TheHow-toeBookofFLAX:

hAp://flax-doc.nzdl.org/BOOK_OF_FLAX/BookofFLAX%20fullsize%20with%20links.pdfFLAXGame-basedAppsforAndroid:

hAps://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=FLAX%20TEAM&hl=en

AlannahFitzgerald:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]

Xiaofeng(Alex)Yu:[email protected]

OERResearchHub:hAp://oerresearchhub.org/TOETOETechnologyforOpenEnglishBlog:www.alannahfitzgerald.org

Slideshare:hAp://www.slideshare.net/AlannahOpenEd/TwiAer:@AlannahFitz