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Guided Concordance Analysis for Learning Vocabulary Usage and Grammar

Guided Concordance Analysis for Learning Vocabulary Usage and Grammar. Fanny Law & Cherry Ngai San Francisco State University. OVERVIEW of PRESENTATION. 1) Background Teaching context : University-level ESL young adults Intermediate level writing course Approach:

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Guided Concordance Analysis for Learning Vocabulary Usage and Grammar

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  1. Guided Concordance Analysis for Learning Vocabulary Usage and Grammar Fanny Law & Cherry Ngai San Francisco State University

  2. OVERVIEW of PRESENTATION 1) Background • Teaching context: University-level ESL young adults Intermediate level writing course • Approach: Teacher-led in classroom to Student-led at home 2) Demo 1 – Collocates Demo 2 – Concordance lines 3) Teaching suggestions

  3. DEMO 1 – COLLOCATES • Preposition after Adjectives • Sample error: I’m enthusiastic at working on the project.

  4. Just the Word

  5. DEMO 2 – CONCORDANCE LINES • excited vs exciting • Sample Error: 1) I’m exciting. 2) This is an excited story.

  6. Excited

  7. Exciting

  8. Sentence Structures

  9. Suggestions • Procedures of this presentation: • Step 1: Students hand in writings • Step 2: Teacher provides specific feedback • Step 3: Corpus-based tools demo • Step 4: Independent exploration

  10. Suggestions con’t • Others: • Proofreading • Grammar—inductive & deductive • Vocabulary—collocation • Registers—spoken vs. written & different genres • Prefixes and Suffixes • Lexical bundles—phrases / chunks • English for Specific Purposes

  11. CORPUS-BASED RESOURCES • COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English) http://www.americancorpus.org/ • MICASE (Spoken English) http://micase.elicorpora.info/ • Just the Word (British National Corpus) http://193.133.140.102/jtwt/ • Compleat Lexical Tutor http://www.lextutor.ca/ • Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English http://www.ldoceonline.com/ • AntConc 3.2.1 http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html • Academic Word List http://www.uefap.com/vocab/vocfram.htm

  12. THANK YOU!HAVE FUN WITH CORPORA! Fanny Law fannylaw@sfsu.edu Cherry Ngaingai@sfsu.edu

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