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This workshop was given to staff at a Gulf College to introduce the EFL staff to the world of concordancing.
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- 1. Concordancing And EFL John Allan EFL Instructor
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- 2. Topics to Be Covered
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- 3. Concordance
- is an alphabetical list of the principal words used in a book
or body of work, with their immediate contexts
- KWIC (key word in context)
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- 4. Concordancer
- a computer program that automatically constructs a
concordance
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- 5. Corpus
- body of texts available for examination
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- For linguistic language comparison
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- 6. Corpus Characteristics
- Should have a descriptive header
- Tags indicate; parts of speech
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- 7. Web based Corpus
- http://americannationalcorpus.org
- http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
- International Corpus of English
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/ice/avail.htm
- COBuild Corpus
http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx
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- 8. Collocations
- a sequence of words or terms which co-occur more often than
would be expected by chance
- collocations are characteristic, co-occurence patterns of
words. For example: "Christmas" may collocate with "tree", "angel
&"presents"
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- 9. Concordancers
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- 10. Web based concordancers
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- 11. Linguistics
- comparing different usages of the same word
- analysing word frequencies
- finding and analysing phrases and idioms
- creating indexes and word lists (also useful for
publishing)
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- 12. Materials creation
- Create lists of language patterns e.g. a list of irregular
verbs ordered according to the frequency of occurrence
- Create test items instead of artificial unnatural ones for
patterns taught
- Justify particular linguistic intuitions by authentic
evidence
- Clarify stylistic problems in writing by illustrations
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- 13. In the classroom
- Example sentences providing students with a large amount of
example sentences
- Example sentences with gaps without the key words, so that they
have to use their grammatical and lexical knowledge to fill the
gaps
- categorize Many common words have a number of usages and
meanings. Students can be given some concordances of a single word,
and told to group them according to usage.
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- 14. In the classroom 2
- Find the rule Rather than tell students a particular rule,
students can be given a set of concordances and asked to discover
for themselves what rules can be deduced from the evidence. This
could be something simple such as discovering that the verb form
changes the third person. In addition, this task can be done with
more complex patterns such as collocations.
- As a computer quiz With the advent of cheap and free authoring
software it is now possible to create ones own internet quizzes
(see 'hot Potato'). With such software it is possible to create
quizzes in which students have to fill gaps. Just as these gaps can
be part of a larger passage of text, they can also be part of
concordance lines. Furthermore, with these kinds of online 'tests'
it is possible to give students instant feedback.
- categorize Many common words have a number of usages and
meanings. Students can be given some concordances of a single word,
and told to group them according to usage.
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- 15. In the classroom 3
- Hot Potatoes
http://www.nsknet.or.jp/~peterr-s/concordancing/onlineconcquiz/hotpotato/hp_efh_u06.htm
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- 16. Conclusion
- Review conference schedule
- Review expectations for parent conferences
- Explain how you can be reached to discuss concerns
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