3. Wordlists – general and
specialised
Wordlists have been around since before the
invention of computers. General wordlists are
used for curriculum development, textbook
writing etc.
Also possible to produce a word list for a
reading (or a possibly textbook)
4. Wordlists – general
Use existing wordlists such as West's General
Service List and recent updates. Coxhead's
Academic Wordlist. Kilgarriff's Wordlists
based on the BNC.
8. Academic Word List
• receptive list (based on morphological
derivations)
• the list excludes words found in non-academic
texts (even if they occur in academic texts)
• do we need subject or genre-specific
wordlists? (Hyland)
9. Specialised Word List
• Create a wordlist from a corpus (using
concordancer or other utilities)
• May need to create your own corpus –
BootCaT ?? Silvia Bernadini
12. Collocation lists
• More difficult to find – use Collocation
Dictionary??
• Biber's work on lexical bundles
• Use concordancer or utility to create ngram
lists or locate collocations
• Collocate – shown below
16. Concordancers
• Using a concordancer in the classroom
• Corpus as a reference tool – query the corpus
– can you say “the government are”
– what is the difference between “for
instance” and “for example”
– Tim Johns – Data-driven Learning
• (...caused economic
development...)
20. Concordance data
• DDL – highlighting/noticing/discovery learning
• Highlight unexpected (for the learner)
distinctions, uses etc.
• Sequence data to build up knowledge
22. Concordance data
issues
• KWIC format
• Google effect
• Data overload
• Reauthenticating data
– Sabine Braun – includes discourse
perspective (Why did the speaker use
that form?)
25. Collocate
Software to extract collocations/terms
Word search + Span (2 words, 3 words etc.)
n-gram (bigram, trigram) list
Full extract -- collocations in a corpus
37. Corpuslab.com
Familiar exercise authoring
Currently offline
Aims
avoid duplication of tasks -- identifying
common collocations in Business English
Provide corpus/analysis resources
Bring corpus resources together with
familiar exercise authoring
67. Aims
Create a language learning site
Encourage and facilitate use of corpus data
Matching exercise (up to 5 columns)
Provide access to word lists etc
Provide text analysis tools
68. Aims
Use traditional exercise types that teachers
are familiar with
Give examples of creative uses of these
standard exercises
