Stringing Students Along Neil McMahon, IHWO, IH Buenos Aires Teacher Training
Stringing Students AlongNeil McMahon, IHWO,
IH Buenos Aires Teacher Training
Stringing Students Along
Stringing Students Along
What is StringNet?An English lexico-grammatical knowledgebase consisting of multiword patterns of word behaviour
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StringNet contains about two billion
hybrid n-grams extracted from the British National Corpus (BNC)
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What are Hybrid n-grams?The multiword patterns that we call hybrid n-grams are sequences of grams which may consist of…
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(1) specific word forms (e.g., ‘trying’ but not ‘tried’ or ‘tries’ or ‘try’);
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(2) lexemes (e.g., try, including its various forms—trying, tried, etc.);
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or (3) parts of speech (POSs), marked off in brackets, including specific POSs such as [V-ing] or more general POSs such as [verb], which cover different more specific POSs such as [V-ing].
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An example hybrid n-gram is:
take the unprecedented step of [v-ing]
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take the unprecedented step of [v-ing]
Clicking on the [v-ing] reveals:
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take the unprecedented step of [v-ing]
Clicking on unprecedented reveals:In the classroom?
Stringnet substitution drills…
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take the unprecedented step of [v-ing]
Clicking on Examples:In the classroom?
Note their fave example in contextGuess the texts
Read and remember
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Each of the 2 billion patterns in StringNet is indexed (linked) to other related patterns by four basic types of relations.
1.Parents: more abstract versions of itself
2.Children: more specific versions of itself
3.Expand: to longer versions of itself
4.Contract: to shorter versions of itself
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take the unprecedented step of [v-ing]
Clicking on Parent:
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take the unprecedented step of [v-ing]
Clicking on Child:
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take the unprecedented step of [v-ing]
Clicking on Expand:
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take the unprecedented step of [v-ing]
Clicking on Contract:
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In the classroom?
There’s a better word for…Productive feedback
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In the classroom?
Transformations supportNoticing in reading
Pre-teach vocabFamily fortunes
Collocation games?…?
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Stringing Students AlongNeil McMahon, IHWO,
IH Buenos Aires Teacher Training