New Words New Toys

New Words & Meanings, New Toys & Tools Changes in the English language and in English language-teaching technologies Paul Heacock

What do these have to do with each other? ,[object Object],Computers They have more in common than you’d think!

Dictionary making ,[object Object],[object Object]

Dictionary making ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Lexicographers have always been ‘techies’

These days, computers, not quills

What is a corpus? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What can we get from corpora? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What “real language” is in a corpus? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Why look at different genres? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Spoken examples of great ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Academic examples of great ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Corpus linguistics is more than just dictionaries ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

So what’s new in English? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

New words for new things ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What happened to web ? ,[object Object],[object Object]

The Web happened ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

And site ? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

And stream ? ,[object Object],[object Object]

We’ve all become a little techie ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

We care about other stuff, too ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

And some things have changed ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Words come, words go . . . ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What has changed ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Once upon a time . . . An English classroom might have these

classroom tools, c. 1990 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

classroom tools, c. 2000 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

classroom tools, c. 2008 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Computers in the classroom ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What’s on CD-ROMs? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What’s online? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

An Interactive whiteboard? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Podcasting for listening & speaking ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Collaborative online writing ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What’s next? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Does technology matter? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What really matters ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Some keys to evaluation ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Bridging the gap from techies to teachers ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Don’t be afraid ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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