Enda F. Scott 2001 Good morning An introduction to modern dictionary making

Enda F. Scott 2001 An initial warm up activity on the first handout

Enda F. Scott 2001 Corpus... a body of language which can be stored and analysed. Corpora

Enda F. Scott 2001 History Chomsky and decline in interest Shakespearean analysis 400 years ago Kading: 11 million word German corpus 1980s revival Computing power

Enda F. Scott 2001 How works... Select sources of text TAG each word Concordencing Analysis... frequency, collocations etc.

Enda F. Scott 2001 Statistics Before 1965: only 10 corpora : 320 corpora COBUILD 1987: 20 million words Longman: 30 million words BNC 100 million words Bank of English 200m open-ended

Enda F. Scott 2001 Results Numerous challenges to existing descriptions and concepts of grammar and vocabulary usage. “Few would now contemplate producing a new dictionary without at least some use of corpus data; indeed, to most people in the field at least, the notion of attempting descriptive language work without reference to empirical data would be regarded as perverse.”(Rundell 1996)

Enda F. Scott 2001 What does all that mean?

Enda F. Scott 2001 Advantages... Democracy in action Usage rather than expert description Everybody can access the core information and make their own judgements We can all be experts...with a little practice

Enda F. Scott 2001 In Class... Authenticity Student control of source material Data Driven Learning (DDL) Exam preparation

Enda F. Scott 2001 Practicalities... Students need... - Exposure - Guidance - Practice Student (teacher?) traditional expectations Level? ESP?

Enda F. Scott 2001 Try it out...

Enda F. Scott very much Thank you...

Enda F. Scott 2001 Goodbye