Prime Time Simply the best From online corpora to word clouds Using the web for vocabulary work Stephan Waba 2016
Vocabulary in context
Vocabulary in context
Vocabulary in context
Creating interactive flashcards to memorise and test http://www.cram.com/
Creating interactive flashcards to memorise and test http://www.cram.com/
Creating interactive flashcards to memorise and test http://www.cram.com/
Creating interactive flashcards to memorise and test http://www.cram.com/
Creating interactive flashcards to memorise and test http://www.cram.com/
Creating interactive flashcards to memorise and test
extracts from books and newspapers authentic linguistic material Language corpora databases extracts from books and newspapers authentic linguistic material search result: list of concordances http://www.cambridge.org/elt/corpus/
finding concordances on the go which words are often used together? Language corpora finding concordances on the go which words are often used together? http://www.google.com
Corpuseye English, German, French, Spanish Language corpora Corpuseye English, German, French, Spanish http://corp.hum.sdu.dk/cqp.en.html Lextutor.ca English, German and French http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/ British National Corpus English http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
What to do with language corpora use like internet search engine print out or copy list of concordances edit list with a word-processing programme students have to do tasks based on search in language corpora Challenges students‘ level of language competence students not used to working with language corpora concentrate on one aspect only unexpected questions and phenomena
Some ideas for working with language corpora The secret word list of concordances with missing word the more sentences, the easier What was helpful to get to the right solution? Are there any alternative solutions that might also fit?
Some ideas for working with language corpora False friends
Finetuning one‘s use of language http://textalyser.net/
Finetuning one‘s use of language http://textalyser.net/
Finetuning one‘s use of language http://textalyser.net/
Finetuning one‘s use of language http://textalyser.net/
Finetuning one‘s use of language http://neon.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/textstat/
Finetuning one‘s use of language Letting students work with language corpora Students experiment with different corpora using Textanalyser or Textstat Students find their most favourite words and collect synonyms When students hand in an assignment they automatically hand in a text analysis: only a limited amout of repetitions is allowed, etc.
Word clouds: alternative way to visualise texts http://www.wordle.net/
Word clouds: alternative way to visualise texts http://www.wordle.net/
Word clouds: alternative way to visualise texts http://www.wordle.net/
Experiment 1: Studying with flashcards Create your own set of flash cards and experiment with the various settings Cram.com offers.
Experiment 2: Working with a corpus Use a corpus of your choice to draft one of the following activities: The secret word False friends http://corp.hum.sdu.dk/cqp.en.html http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/