Stringing Students AlongNeil McMahon, IHWO,

IH Buenos Aires Teacher Training

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