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Stringing Students AlongNeil McMahon, IHWO,
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Stringing Students Along
Stringing Students Along
What is StringNet?An English lexico-grammatical knowledgebase consisting of multiword patterns of word behaviour
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StringNet contains about two billion
hybrid n-grams extracted from the British National Corpus (BNC)
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What are Hybrid n-grams?The multiword patterns that we call hybrid n-grams are sequences of grams which may consist of…
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(1) specific word forms (e.g., ‘trying’ but not ‘tried’ or ‘tries’ or ‘try’);
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(2) lexemes (e.g., try, including its various forms—trying, tried, etc.);
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or (3) parts of speech (POSs), marked off in brackets, including specific POSs such as [V-ing] or more general POSs such as [verb], which cover different more specific POSs such as [V-ing].
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An example hybrid n-gram is:
take the unprecedented step of [v-ing]
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take the unprecedented step of [v-ing]
Clicking on the [v-ing] reveals:
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take the unprecedented step of [v-ing]
Clicking on unprecedented reveals:In the classroom?
Stringnet substitution drills…
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take the unprecedented step of [v-ing]
Clicking on Examples:In the classroom?
Note their fave example in contextGuess the texts
Read and remember
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Each of the 2 billion patterns in StringNet is indexed (linked) to other related patterns by four basic types of relations.
1.Parents: more abstract versions of itself
2.Children: more specific versions of itself
3.Expand: to longer versions of itself
4.Contract: to shorter versions of itself
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take the unprecedented step of [v-ing]
Clicking on Parent:
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take the unprecedented step of [v-ing]
Clicking on Child:
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take the unprecedented step of [v-ing]
Clicking on Expand:
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take the unprecedented step of [v-ing]
Clicking on Contract:
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In the classroom?
There’s a better word for…Productive feedback
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In the classroom?
Transformations supportNoticing in reading
Pre-teach vocabFamily fortunes
Collocation games?…?
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Stringing Students AlongNeil McMahon, IHWO,
IH Buenos Aires Teacher Training