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Just got back from London, wanted to quickly write down some thoughts on this new ELT conference before I forgot them. It was notable for me as well since it was my first “proper” workshop talk i.e. not one done with work colleagues! I’ll save my talk experience for another post.[Update: read about my talk … Continue reading
Frequency of occurrence is the main way for teachers to choose what to teach when using corpora however as Andrew Walkley/@CELTtraining discusses in Word choice, frequency and definitions using just frequency is not without limitations. In addition to frequency we can use semantic transparency/opacity, that is, how the meaning of the whole differs from its … Continue reading
A quick post on using the Firefox add-on NoScript as a way to raise students understanding of how web pages use scripts. Note I have not used this in class yet. Working with multi-media students I am always surprised by a relative naivety about browsing the internet. Awareness of issues like privacy and security seem … Continue reading
I was tipped off to the latest version of StringNet by Scott Thornbury recently (in the comments section of this post) and decided to do a follow up on my last post using GloWbE. If you recall I had some students asking about adverb placement in the sentence “That will suit you perfectly”. Looking back … Continue reading
- Make sure to check out my Quick cup of COCA posts if you want to see some examples of short corpus use with the BYU COCA corpus.
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#Lexconf2013 – Novice workshop-talk hues
As mentioned in my #lexconf2013 conference summary this post outlines my first “proper” workshop-talk experience. Things will go wrong more so in cases where technology is involved.* My workshop had 5 computers in total, 4 of which were kindly provided by the event organisers. Unfortunately two programs were not installed on these computers so bringing … Continue reading »