1. The (in)compleat lexical tutor Marti Sevier English Bridge Program Simon Fraser University March 12, 2010

2. The compleat lexical tutor Background: –The AWL (2000) –Tom Cobb UQAM –Constantly expanding –My interest

3. The Compleat Lexical Tutor, 2006

4. The Compleat Lexical Tutor, 2010

5. Web VP Key Words Concordancing Hypertext Cloze GroupLex Useful Applications

6. Web VP

7. Web VP:Outcomes Web VP:Outcomes Learner –Awareness- raising –Motivation Instructor –Text analysis –Identify lexis for teaching –Diagnosis For both: the comfort of lists

8. AWL / Web VP Shortcomings Conspiracy theory/Marketing ploy An artificial distinction? -Hanciog˘lu, Neufeld, and Eldridge, 2008 A compromise?

9. Language Problems of International and Domestic ESL Students at UBC, York McGill and Dalhousie, and Academic Achievement AWL: academic access achievement alternative authors comments complex complexity conclude consequently context contribution data defined fee fees financial funding hypothesis immigrants individual initiatives institution intensive involves involving medium obvious outcomes participants percentage ranging research revenue significant source sources task trend undertaking variables Off-list: (proper nouns and abbreviations removed) allude announced awarded campus chronically comparability configuration coping correlating daunting deficiencies enrol graduated illuminates inequities intuitively lumped mask meaningfully multitude non-government offshore prevalence professors proficiency refugees resonate tutors underfunded KeyWords: (proper nouns removed) backgrounds participants universities language learning involves native context revenue students institution increasing academic courses study source materials international numbers student research basis different course important second several

10. When words aren’t enough… Compared the human labor force, robots’ work time is 2- 3 times as human. They can keep working with same performance. Gochfeld (2003) pointed out that … these babies would be cerebral palsy, blind and profound mental retardation when they born… Michelle L. Bell and Devra Lee Davis, (2001) suggest London Smog Incident have effects on people’s health both in the short-term and the long-run.

11. The concordancer: outcomes Awareness: lexical chunking Economical input – context Error correction

12. Hypertext: outcomes Reading difficult texts Accessing multiple contexts for learning vocabulary

13. Cloze: outcomes Promote active engagement with language –Vocabulary Guessing words from context Reinforcing awareness of collocation –Grammar Tenses Prepositions –Reinforce key concepts in a text

14. GroupLex: outcome Student-driven learning –New or recycled vocabulary –Interactive: –Personalized –Multiconc option: increased exposure, contexts

15. Questions? msevier@sfu.ca