1. Prime Time Simply the best From online corpora to word clouds
Using the web for vocabulary work
Stephan Waba 2016

2. Vocabulary in context

3. Vocabulary in context

4. Vocabulary in context

5. Creating interactive flashcards to memorise and test

6. Creating interactive flashcards to memorise and test

7. Creating interactive flashcards to memorise and test

8. Creating interactive flashcards to memorise and test

9. Creating interactive flashcards to memorise and test

10. Creating interactive flashcards to memorise and test

11. extracts from books and newspapers authentic linguistic material
Language corpora
databases
extracts from books and newspapers
authentic linguistic material
search result: list of concordances

12. finding concordances on the go which words are often used together?
Language corpora
finding concordances on the go
which words are often used together?

13. Corpuseye English, German, French, Spanish
Language corpora
Corpuseye English, German, French, Spanish
Lextutor.ca English, German and French
British National Corpus English

14. 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

15. 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?

16. Some ideas for working with language corpora
False friends

17. Finetuning one‘s use of language

18. Finetuning one‘s use of language

19. Finetuning one‘s use of language

20. Finetuning one‘s use of language

21. Finetuning one‘s use of language

22. 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.

23. Word clouds: alternative way to visualise texts

24. Word clouds: alternative way to visualise texts

25. Word clouds: alternative way to visualise texts

26. Experiment 1: Studying with flashcards
Create your own set of flash cards and
experiment with the various settings Cram.com offers.

27. Experiment 2: Working with a corpus
Use a corpus of your choice to draft one of the following activities:
The secret word
False friends