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Using concordances to
raise awareness of
grammatical patterns
Jenny Kemp [email protected]
St Andrews BALEAP
PIM June 20th 2015
What is a corpus?
principled
a collection of texts
What is a corpus?
principled
a collection of texts
quantitative
for analysis
qualitative
frequency
info
concordance lines
showing
patterns of use
Key
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Patterns of use
collocation
chunks/idioms
syntactic restrictions (word grammar/colligation)
semantic restrictions
semantic prosody
genre + context
Based on O’Keeffe et al (2007)
What is a corpus?
principled
a collection of texts
quantitative
for analysis
qualitative
frequency
info
concordance lines
showing
patterns of use
Tagged? Un-tagged?
Stages
Observe
Highlight
Extract
Use
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Stages
Observe
Highlight
Extract
Use
Stages
Observe
Highlight
Extract
Use
Published materials
CPE Past Papers 3 2004. CUP
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Create your own materials
Lextutor
(e.g. gapped concordance
and n-gram phrase extractor)
AntConchttp://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html
Wordsmith Tools
http://www.lexically.net/wordsmith/
ConcGram
[John Benjamins Publishing Co.]
Tools
http://www.wordle.net/
Guided practice 2 The BAWE corpus
Over to you…
What we do with advanced-level students in a
concordance workshop
Opportunity for practice
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Learner Training
Ss already introduced to printed concordance output in
classes.
Awareness of concordancers as a self-study tool
Observe - Highlight – Extract - Use Methodology
Pa t t e r ns o f u se : mus t be 2 o r mo r e
Your worksheet
Student questions
Guided error correction practice
Preparing classes
Exploring other web tools
Pa t t e r ns o f u se : mus t be 2 o r mo r e
Thank you.
For references please
see your handout.
Choose your corpus
Observe, Highlight, Extract, Use