A workshop given to the participants of The Professional Development Workshop Series, an initiative of the Department of English, TNU School of Foreign Languages. The initiative aims to create a forum for professionals to share their teaching practices and research outcomes.
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2 An abstract proposal for a conference (VietTESOL)
3 An article submitted to a professional journal (Forum)
POSSIBLE WS OUTCOMES
1 A lesson plan idea for your coming class (DDL)
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1 What & Why is Data Driven Learning (DDL)?
2 How can DDL be used for teaching & learning?
3 What do DDL classroom activities look like?
4 What are some resources & tools and ideas?
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“give direct access to the data so that the
learner can take part in building his or her
own profiles of meanings and uses. ”
DDL
(Johns,1991, p. 30)
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“Do MICASE speakers use ‘less’ with uncountables (for example, less money) and
‘fewer’ with countables (for example, fewer dollars)? Or are there other factors at play?”
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‘predicting, observing, noticing, thinking, reasoning, analysing,
interpreting, reflecting, exploring, making inferences (inductively or
deductively), focusing, guessing, comparing, differentiating, theorising,
hypothesising, and verifying’
(O’Sullivan, 2007, p. 277)
More than language learning
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o the indirect use of corpora in teaching: reference publishing,
materials development, and language testing
o the direct use of corpora in teaching: teaching about,
teaching to exploit, and exploiting to teach
o further teaching-oriented corpus development: languages for
specific purposes (LSP) corpora, first language (L1)
developmental corpora and second language (L2) learner
corpora.
(McEnery & Xiao, 2011)
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17Dao, T. N. (2014). Using corpora to teach English amplifiers in ESL/EFL classrooms. Hawaii Pacific University TESOL Working Paper Series 12, 32-57.
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Tran, L. A. (2013). A corpus-based analysis of the evaluative adjectives interesting and nice in written and spoken English.
Hawaii Pacific University TESOL Working Paper Series 11, 2-28.
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Corpus ToolsCorpora
British National Corpus
American National Corpus
BYU Corpus Interface (COCA, COHA, BNC, etc.)
MiCase (Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English)
Fore more: http://www.corpora4learning.net/resources/corpora.html
AntConc
A freeware corpus analysis toolkit for
concordancing and text analysis.
http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software.html
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Input a word or phrase, and Netspeak will suggest
the most statistically likely collocates/combinations
Easy-to-search and provides easy-to-read
concordances and has a nice word sketch feature
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA).
More resources
https://corpling4efl.wordpress.com/resources
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References
Boulton, A., & Cobb, T. (2017). Corpus use in language learning: A meta‐analysis. Language Learning, 67(2), 348-
393. (link)
Dao, T. N. (2014). Using corpora to teach English amplifiers in ESL/EFL classrooms. Hawaii Pacific University TESOL
Working Paper Series 12, 32-57. (link)
Johns, T., 1991. 'Should you be persuaded: Two examples of data-driven learning' in Johns, T. and King, P. (eds.)
Classroom Concordancing. Birmingham: English Language Research Journal, 4, pp.1-13. (link)
McEnery, T., & Xiao, R. (2011). What corpora can offer in language teaching and learning. Handbook of research in
second language teaching and learning, 2, 364-380. (link)
O'Sullivan, Í. (2007). Enhancing a process-oriented approach to literacy and language learning: The role of corpus
consultation literacy. ReCALL, 19(3), 269-286.
Tran, L. A. (2013). A corpus-based analysis of the evaluative adjectives interesting and nice in written and spoken
English. Hawaii Pacific University TESOL Working Paper Series 11, 2-28. (link)