#IATEFL 2016 – Corpus Tweets 1

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This is a storified verison of the tweets by Sandy Millinon a talk called Making trouble free corpus tasks in ten minutes by Jennie Wright @teflhelper. Hopefully there will be other tweeters attending the other corpus based talks, who will be up to the standard set by Sandy : )

IATEFL2016 Corpus Tweets 1

Making trouble free corpus tasks in ten minutes – Jennie Wright as reported by Sandy Millin

  1. sandymillin

    Sandy Millin@sandymillin
    Jennie Wright now in Hall 8b ‘Making trouble-free corpus tasks in ten minutes’
  2. Jennie Wright runs the TEFL helper blog:  http://teflhelperblog.wordpress.com 
  3. Jennie Wright All you need to make quick corpus tasks is a good copy-paster
  4. Jennie Wright Key terms: corpus/corpora: multi-million word collections of lang, concordance lines: search term presented in middle
  5. Jennie Wright POS/grammatical tagging is tagging with noun, verb etc; KWIC is key word in the middle (was wrong before! Sorry)
  6. Jennie Wright COCA is one her business English students go back to:  http://corpus.byu.edu/coca 

  7. #iatefl Jennie Wright This is the search for COCA. It's vey intuitive. Put a key word in the box https://t.co/8YcJPuSaxh

    Jennie Wright This is the search for COCA. It’s vey intuitive. Put a key word in the box pic.twitter.com/8YcJPuSaxh
     
  8. Jennie Wright You can click KWIC to see the key word in the centre. Very fast!
  9. Jennie Wright COCA is great because it’s colour coded and the parts of speech are tagged

  10. #iatefl Jennie Wright What's the missing word? Get your concordance lines, then blank out one word https://t.co/owVfQ4xU33

    Jennie Wright What’s the missing word? Get your concordance lines, then blank out one word pic.twitter.com/owVfQ4xU33
     
  11. Jennie Wright It’s ‘thingie’ – she wanted her students to use something other than ‘thing’ or ‘stuff’! Good for fossilised errors
  12. Jennie Wright To make it, use a screengrab or clipping tool tog et the concordance lines, then block out words you want SS to guess
  13. Jennie Wright Don’t forget to read the concordance lines before you copy and paste! Avoid accidents 🙂
  14. Jennie Wright Activity 2: collocation gamble. Focus on strong and weak collocations and lexical chunking. Good for SS misusing them

  15. #iatefl Jennie Wright. What are the two most common adjective collocations each for bitterly, deeply and sincerely? https://t.co/UAj50bjmuP

    Jennie Wright. What are the two most common adjective collocations each for bitterly, deeply and sincerely? pic.twitter.com/UAj50bjmuP
  16. @teflhelper 2 most common=’bitterly’: ‘disappointed’/’cold’. ‘deeply’:’concerned’/’sorry’. ‘sincerely’:’interested’/’sorry’
  17. @teflhelper To make collocation gamble, use list function, type ‘bitterly [j*]’ in word box, then adj.ALL in POS list
  18. I think Sandy meant you can use POS list to insert code for adjective if you want not in addition to the search term given [mura]

  19. #iatefl @teflhelper 3. Colour-code me. COCA helps you to do this easily. Can you colour-code these sentences? https://t.co/TuRkPYUdu8

    @teflhelper 3. Colour-code me. COCA helps you to do this easily. Can you colour-code these sentences? pic.twitter.com/TuRkPYUdu8
  20. Lesson plan from @teflhelper and @Chris_Rebuffet book for @wetheround at  http://the-round.com/resource/experimental-practice-in-elt/ …
  21. @teflhelper To make this, search for your word, screen shot the answers and retype the sentences for them to colour code
  22. @teflhelper Audience member suggests giving them a key of colours and get them to figure out a sentence which matches
     
  23. @teflhelper Tips: 1.train a little: better to know one corpus well than a lot of them a little. 2. Imperfections exist in corpora
  24. @teflhelper Tips: Don’t be afraid to oppose what’s in the corpus – you’re the ‘live corpus in the classroom’ Read it carefully
     
  25. @teflhelper Tips: 3. Choose wisely – never more than 10 lines and don’t overwhelm. 4. What’s the problem you want to solve?
     
  26. @teflhelper COCA is very helpful when your students don’t believe you 🙂 maximal v. maximum [thing Ngrams useful here too]
  27. @teflhelper Tip 5: consider how to do this online or offline. If online, what’s your backup plan? Have paper copies!
     
  28. @teflhelper COCA bites on Youtube are 2-minute tutorials on how to use COCA
     
  29. @teflhelper Thanks very much Jennie for an excellent talk. Exactly what I’ve needed for a long time 🙂
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