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 : )
IATEFL2016 Corpus Tweets 1
Making trouble free corpus tasks in ten minutes – Jennie Wright as reported by Sandy Millin
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Jennie Wright runs the TEFL helper blog: http://teflhelperblog.wordpress.com
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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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Jennie Wright What’s the missing word? Get your concordance lines, then blank out one word pic.twitter.com/owVfQ4xU33
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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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@teflhelper 2 most common=’bitterly’: ‘disappointed’/’cold’. ‘deeply’:’concerned’/’sorry’. ‘sincerely’:’interested’/’sorry’
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@teflhelper To make collocation gamble, use list function, type ‘bitterly [j*]’ in word box, then adj.ALL in POS list
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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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Lesson plan from @teflhelper and @Chris_Rebuffet book for @wetheround at http://the-round.com/resource/experimental-practice-in-elt/ …
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@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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@teflhelper Audience member suggests giving them a key of colours and get them to figure out a sentence which matches
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@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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@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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@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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@teflhelper COCA is very helpful when your students don’t believe you 🙂 maximal v. maximum [thing Ngrams useful here too]
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@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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@teflhelper COCA bites on Youtube are 2-minute tutorials on how to use COCA
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@teflhelper Thanks very much Jennie for an excellent talk. Exactly what I’ve needed for a long time 🙂
Excellent stuff – thanks Mura!
hey Matthew my pleasure : )