The (in)compleat lexical The (in)compleat lexical tutortutor

Marti SevierMarti Sevier

English Bridge ProgramEnglish Bridge Program

Simon Fraser UniversitySimon Fraser University

March 12, 2010March 12, 2010

The compleat lexical tutor The compleat lexical tutor

Background:–The AWL (2000)

–Tom Cobb UQAM

–Constantly expanding

–My interest

The Compleat Lexical Tutor, The Compleat Lexical Tutor, 20062006

The Compleat Lexical Tutor, The Compleat Lexical Tutor, 20102010

• Web VP

• Key Words

• Concordancing

• Hypertext

• Cloze

• GroupLex

Useful Applications

Web VPWeb VP

Web VP:Web VP: OutcomesOutcomes

• Learner– Awareness- raising– Motivation

• Instructor– Text analysis– Identify lexis for teaching – Diagnosis

• For both: the comfort of lists

AWL / Web VP Shortcomings

• Conspiracy theory/Marketing ploy

• An artificial distinction? -Hanciog˘lu, Neufeld , and Eldridge, 2008

• A compromise?

Language Problems of International and Domestic

ESL Students at UBC, York McGill and Dalhousie, and Academic AchievementAWL:

academic access achievement alternative authors comments complex complexity conclude consequently context contribution data defined fee fees financial funding hypothesis immigrants individual initiatives institution intensive involves involving medium obvious outcomes participants percentage ranging research revenue significant source sources task trend undertaking variables

Off-list: (proper nouns and abbreviations removed)allude announced awarded campus chronically comparability configuration coping correlating daunting deficiencies enrol graduated illuminates inequities intuitively lumped mask meaningfully multitude non-government offshore prevalence professors proficiency refugees resonate tutors underfunded

KeyWords: (proper nouns removed)backgrounds participants universities language learning involves native context revenue students institution increasing academic courses study source materials international numbers student research basis different course important second several

When words aren’t enough…

• Compared the human labor force, robots’ work time is 2-3 times as human. They can keep working with same performance.

• Gochfeld (2003) pointed out that … these babies would be cerebral palsy, blind and profound mental retardation when they born…

• Michelle L. Bell and Devra Lee Davis, (2001) suggest London Smog Incident have effects on people’s health both in the short-term and the long-run.

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The concordancer: outcomes

• Awareness: lexical chunking

• Economical input – context

• Error correction

Hypertext: outcomes

• Reading difficult texts

• Accessing multiple contexts for learning vocabulary

Cloze: outcomes

• Promote active engagement with language– Vocabulary

• Guessing words from context• Reinforcing awareness of collocation

– Grammar• Tenses• Prepositions

– Reinforce key concepts in a text

GroupLex: outcome

• Student-driven learning – New or recycled vocabulary– Interactive: – Personalized– Multiconc option: increased exposure,

contexts

Questions?

msevier@sfu.ca