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Incorporation of Corpus and
Collocation in Language
Classrooms.
Professor: Milenia Reyes
Corpus
Collocation
Corpus
A collection of texts, written or spoken,
usually stored in a computer
database.
◦ Newspaper
◦ Books
◦ Magazines
◦ Phone calls
◦ Ordinary conversations
◦ TV shows
Purpose
The most frequent words and phrases
in English.
Tense people use the most.
Differences in speaking and writing.
Contexts of use: Informal and
formal situations.
Different words native speakers use in
conversations.
Collocations
How are you?
I’m fine, Thank you.
Good thanks
awesome Great
Not, bad Pretty good
I’m Ok I’m sad today
Expressions
Really?
Well
I mean
You know
Uh-huh
Oh
Like
Anyway
You did?
I’m not sure
Stuff like that
And that sort of
stuff
You see
McCarthy, Michael. (Touchstone 2)
How does it look like?
Jill: Where do want to go for dinner?
Jose: I don’t know. Why don’t we go to
the pizza place on the corner?
Jill: Pizza again! I don’t like their
pizza. It’s too spicy.
Jose: You are right. It’s spicier than
the pizza at Pizza House.
Jill: Well, I still want to go out tonight.
How about the new Japanese
restaurant downtown?
Jose: Ok! Lest go!
Stempleski, Susan (World Link, book 2)
How does it look like?Eve: Ooh, it’s cold tonight.
Chris: Yeah, it is. But actually, I kind of
like cold weather.
Eve: You do? Really? …Boy, there
are a lot of people out here tonight.
Chris: Yeah, it gets pretty crowded on
weekends.
Eve: Do you come here a lot?
Chris: Yeah, I do, actually.
Eve: So are you a big hip-hop fan?
Chris: Yeah, I am. Are you?
Eve: Actually, no, but my brother’s in
the band tonight.
Chris: Oh, really? Cool.... By the
way, my name’s Chris.
Eve: Nice to meet you. I’m Eve.
McCarthy, Michael. (Touchstone 2)
Corpus for ESP
It is probably one of the most obvious
and pointed applications of Corpus
Linguistics.
◦ Academic purposes
◦ Nurses and health care
◦ Air traffic controllers
What is not a Corpus?
An archive is not a corpus.
A collection of citations is not a
corpus.
A text is not a corpus.
Collocations
A collocation is a pair or group of
words that are often used together.
(Michael McCarthy)
Learning Collocations
It is good to learn collocations
because they will help you to speak
and write English in a more natural
and accurate way.
It is accepted that choosing our words
carefully in certain situations is more
important than choosing grammatical
structures (Harmer 1991).
Types of Collocation
Adjectives and Nouns
• Heavy rain
Verbs and Nouns
• Take a photo
Verbs and Prepositions
• Depend on
• Look at
Have
A party
A problem
Anaccident
Difficulty
A dream
Collocation Activities
Gap texts.
◦ I’m sure you’ll ________fun on the school
trip.
Sentences that include collocation
errors.
◦ I cannot do [make] up my mind.
Collocation Activities
word combinations that collocate with
certain verbs.
do: the laundry, homework, the bed,
exercise.
A brainstorming activity.
Get
together
married
The phone
A cold
up
in
Collocation Activities
Put expression in categories.
Evidence (2)
Jail
Police station
Court
Crime
Suicide
Alabi
Accident
Homicide
Drug
money
What is the difference?
Make a mistake checkpoint a storm in a tea cup
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