EAP concordancing workshop
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This document provides an overview of resources for teaching English for academic purposes (EAP), including lexical knowledge and vocabulary. It summarizes various online tools for concordancing, academic word lists, collocations, pronouns, and other aspects of EAP. Examples of tools discussed are FLAX, Lexical Tutor, Nottingham AWL exercises, and UEFAP. The document also links to video guides and exercises for using these EAP teaching resources.
EAP concordancing workshop
- 1. EAP concordancingworkshopAlannah Fitzgerald09/08/20111Kelly, http://www.slideshare.net/wheatto/in-fast-company
- 2. Lexical knowledgeFLAX concordancer & web collectionsEAP KibbitzersLexical Tutor toolsAcademic word lists & practice sitesOverview2
- 3. tellingcommitteesuggested that I tryconversedForeign Visitorsquicklyhave much contact withTypical lexical errorsa. He’s very humorous. He’s always doing jokes. b. I’m the chairman of a special comedy at my school.c. He suggested me to try acupuncture. d. We conversated for almost one hour.e. First Annual Seoul Marathon for Alien Residentsf. … and compromise, the issue was resolved in a jiffy. g. North Korea doesn’t contact other countries much.collocationspoken formword grammarword families / derivativesconnotationregisterform-meaning pairs3
- 4. of sththat ... to do sthmake sby believe sth is truetellmakelisten tolaugh atdoconvince sbya jokepersuadeHe tried to convince me that it wasn’t his fault.She convinced him to lend her $100.photographphotographerphotographyphotographic (adj.)take a photographnotorious (for ~)(-)famous for sth badRome is notorious for pickpockets.notoriouslyHighlighting aspects of lexical knowledge4
- 5. v‘like’‘patent’High-frequency itemsLow-frequency itemsWhat’s the difference between these words?… in terms of who needs to learn them?… and how they should be taught/learned?Somedepending on personal factorsEveryone needs themShould be handled by training students in effective use of vocabulary learning strategies.Deserve explicitandthoroughattention in the classroom. 5
- 6. Feedback to writing (sample)http://room6halcombeschool.blogspot.com/2011/06/writing-feedback-from-ashhurst.html
- 7. FLAX Web Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=) 7
- 9. FLAX Web Pronoun Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=) 9
- 10. Noticing Text Types – Issues of Register and GenreFLAX Web Pronoun Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=) 10
- 11. FLAX Web Pronoun Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=) 11
- 12. Web Pronouns Phrases OERhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns4nXsZQmUA12
- 13. Kibbitzers (Tim John’s EAP pages)http://www.lexically.net/TimJohns/Kibbitzer/revis028.htm13
- 14. Web Collocations (fact vs idea)http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=g&rt=r&sa=CollocationSearch&s=CollocationTypes&s1.wordClass=n&c=collodb&s1.query=&s1.multiple=on14
- 15. Web Collocations (fact vs idea)15
- 16. Compleat Lexical Tutor (Tom Cobb)http://www.lextutor.ca/
- 18. AWL Exercises (Nottingham)http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/index.htm18
- 20. Specific EAP vocab (UEFAP)http://www.uefap.com/vocab/vocfram.htm20
- 21. FLAX User guides & demosFLAX Web Collocations & Phrases Excercises (by Shaoqun Wu http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~shaoqun/tmp/instruction.html)
- 22. User guides & demoshttp://flax.nzdl.org/resources/flax_video/flax_video.html