#IATEFL 2016 – Corpus Tweets 1

This is a storified verison of the tweets by Sandy Millin ‏@sandymillin on 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 : )

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

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   Sandy Millin@sandymillin

   Jennie Wright now in Hall 8b ‘Making trouble-free corpus tasks in ten minutes’

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2. Jennie Wright runs the TEFL helper blog:  http://teflhelperblog.wordpress.com 

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3. Jennie Wright All you need to make quick corpus tasks is a good copy-paster

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4. Jennie Wright Key terms: corpus/corpora: multi-million word collections of lang, concordance lines: search term presented in middle

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5. Jennie Wright POS/grammatical tagging is tagging with noun, verb etc; KWIC is key word in the middle (was wrong before! Sorry)

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6. Jennie Wright COCA is one her business English students go back to:  http://corpus.byu.edu/coca 

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   Jennie Wright This is the search for COCA. It’s vey intuitive. Put a key word in the box pic.twitter.com/8YcJPuSaxh

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8. Jennie Wright You can click KWIC to see the key word in the centre. Very fast!

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9. Jennie Wright COCA is great because it’s colour coded and the parts of speech are tagged

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    Jennie Wright What’s the missing word? Get your concordance lines, then blank out one word pic.twitter.com/owVfQ4xU33

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11. Jennie Wright It’s ‘thingie’ – she wanted her students to use something other than ‘thing’ or ‘stuff’! Good for fossilised errors

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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

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13. Jennie Wright Don’t forget to read the concordance lines before you copy and paste! Avoid accidents 🙂

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14. Jennie Wright Activity 2: collocation gamble. Focus on strong and weak collocations and lexical chunking. Good for SS misusing them

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    Jennie Wright. What are the two most common adjective collocations each for bitterly, deeply and sincerely? pic.twitter.com/UAj50bjmuP

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16. @teflhelper 2 most common=’bitterly’: ‘disappointed’/’cold’. ‘deeply’:’concerned’/’sorry’. ‘sincerely’:’interested’/’sorry’

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17. @teflhelper To make collocation gamble, use list function, type ‘bitterly [j*]’ in word box, then adj.ALL in POS list

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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]
    
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    @teflhelper 3. Colour-code me. COCA helps you to do this easily. Can you colour-code these sentences? pic.twitter.com/TuRkPYUdu8

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20. Lesson plan from @teflhelper and @Chris_Rebuffet book for @wetheround at  http://the-round.com/resource/experimental-practice-in-elt/ …

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21. @teflhelper To make this, search for your word, screen shot the answers and retype the sentences for them to colour code

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22. @teflhelper Audience member suggests giving them a key of colours and get them to figure out a sentence which matches

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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

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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

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25. @teflhelper Tips: 3. Choose wisely – never more than 10 lines and don’t overwhelm. 4. What’s the problem you want to solve?

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26. @teflhelper COCA is very helpful when your students don’t believe you 🙂 maximal v. maximum [thing Ngrams useful here too]

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27. @teflhelper Tip 5: consider how to do this online or offline. If online, what’s your backup plan? Have paper copies!

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28. @teflhelper COCA bites on Youtube are 2-minute tutorials on how to use COCA

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29. @teflhelper Thanks very much Jennie for an excellent talk. Exactly what I’ve needed for a long time 🙂

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