Open text analysis tools & techniques for the EAP

practitionerAlannah Fitzgerald, Clare Carr, Terri Edwards, Jeff Davidson

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Overview

• Training with corpora & text analysis tools– OER Cascade at Durham University

• Demonstration of tools & collections– Lextutor, FLAX, AntConc

• Feed back & feed forward– Teacher Training Videos with Russell Stannard– Design-based research cycles – BALEAP Web Resources Sub Committee

Lextutor

12/04/23 3http://www.lextutor.ca

Lextutor

• The Academic Word List (AWL)• UEfAP vocabulary resources/exercises• The VocabProfile text diagnostic tool

http://www.flickr.com/photos/loop_oh/4493818473/

AWL sublists

12/04/23 5http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist/sublists.aspx

UEfAP

12/04/23 6http://www.uefap.com/index.htm

AWL – published sample

AWL – student sample

VocabProfile edit & check

RE-VP

FLAX

• The Learning Collocations collection• The British Academic Written English (BAWE)corpus• Cherry picking – search, retrieve and store phrases

FLAX – Flexible Language AcquisitionFlexible Language Acquisition

library

BAWE

FLAX – Learning Collocations(BNC, BWE, Wikipedia)

FLAX – Learning Collocations(related collocations, definitions, topics)

Cherry picking phrases

Brainstorm keywords from your subject/topic area and fill your cherry basket!

BAWE texts

http://tinyurl.com/d8l6c64

Noun phrase parsing

http://tinyurl.com/bldqha4

Wikify key words & phrases

http://tinyurl.com/cpwyefb

AntConc concordancing freeware

• Simple install• Training videos• The Keyword List tool

AntConc software

http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html

AntConc video tutorials

http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_index.html

AntConc keyword list tool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JvasTvQY7kU#!

Russell StannardTeacher Training Videos

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com

Thank you

Email: fitzgerald@education.concordia.ca; c.c.barker@durham.ac.uk; terri.edwards@dur.ac.uk; jeffrey.davidson@durham.ac.uk

Blog: Technology for Open English – Toying with Open E-resources www.alannahfitzgerald.org

Twitter: @AlannahFitzSlideshare:http://www.slideshare.net/AlannahOpenEd/