2. Lexical knowledge FLAX concordancer & web collections EAP Kibbitzers Lexical Tutor tools Academic word lists & practice sites Overview 2
3. telling committee suggested that I try conversed Foreign Visitors quickly have much contact with Typical lexical errors a. 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 Residents f. … and compromise, the issue was resolved in a jiffy. g. North Korea doesn’t contact other countries much. collocation spoken form word grammar word families / derivatives connotation register form-meaning pairs 3
4. of sth that ... to do sth make sby believe sth is true tell make listen to laugh at do convince sby a joke persuade He tried to convince me that it wasn’t his fault. She convinced him to lend her $100. photograph photographer photography photographic (adj.) take a photograph notorious (for ~) (-) famous for sth bad Rome is notorious for pickpockets. notoriously Highlighting aspects of lexical knowledge 4
5. v ‘like’ ‘patent’ High-frequency items Low-frequency items What’s the difference between these words? … in terms of who needs to learn them? … and how they should be taught/learned? Somedepending on personal factors Everyone needs them Should 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 Genre FLAX 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
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=on 14