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Word ToolsCC-BY Alannah Fitzgerald
Session One Overview
• Tools:– The Flexible Language Acquisition project (FLAX)– The Compleat Lexical Tutor (Lextutor)
• Language Focus:– Definition (usage + frequency)– Derivatives / word families– Collocation– Register
Let’s start with three questions about English
1.What is the meaning of goalless?2.How many forms of the word economy can you think of? E.g. adjective form3.Which word goes before the following phrases?
a. _________ the effects of…b. _________ the likelihood of future…c. _________ the cost of…d. _________ the number of people…e. _________ the poverty in…
Adapted from Hoffmann et al., 2008
Where do you start?
10/04/23 http://www.flickr.com/photos/60810582@N04/galleries/72157629220721347/ 4
Definition
What is the meaning of goalless?
Google *FLAX language*http://tinyurl.com/7ea4tzq
Meaning + Usage + Frequency
*goalless* search in the FLAX Web Phrases collection
Web Phrases OER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n67FBqBFm6I 9
FLAX Web Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=) 10
Web phrases checking activity (a)
Original:
The variation of these ratios presents some insights about the financial intermediary role of banks.
(sourced from the dissertation of a Farsi-speaking student of Economics)Adapted from Tim John’s EAP Kibitzers http://lexically.net/TimJohns/Kibbitzer/revis012.htm
Web phrases checking activity (b)
Revision:
The variation of these ratios presents some insights into the financial intermediary role of banks.
(sourced from the dissertation of a Farsi-speaking student of Economics)Adapted from Tim John’s EAP Kibitzers http://lexically.net/TimJohns/Kibbitzer/revis012.htm
Derivatives / Word families
How many forms of the word economy can you think of? E.g. adjective form
Highlighting aspects of lexical knowledge
tellmake
listen tolaugh at
do
a joke
Economy
Economies
economical
uneconomical
economically
economist
take a photograph
convince sbyof sththat ... to do sth
He tried to convince me that it wasn’t his fault.She convinced him to lend her $100.
make sby believe sth is true
persuade
notorious (for ~)(-) famous for sth badRome is notorious for pickpockets.
notoriously
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Typical lexical errors
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…demanded that they do economic sanctions and revoke all commercial and trade agreements signed with…
They conversated for almost one hour.
…it seems that the widespread utilization of informatics…
impose/enforce
collocationconversed
word families / derivatives
can be observed
register
Reporting verbs analyses/analysed compares/compared comments/commented concludes/concluded criticises/criticised demonstrates/demonstrated discusses/discussed illustrates/illustrated indicates/indicated notes/noted investigates/investigated evaluates/evaluated estimates/estimated
observes/observed points out/pointed out reports/reported shows/showed suggests/suggested validates/validated verifies/verified argues/argued disputes/disputed concedes/conceded believes/believed recognises/recognised predicts/predicted
Web Pronouns Phrases OER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns4nXsZQmUA 17
FLAX Web Pronoun Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=) 18
FLAX Web Pronoun Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=)
Noticing Text Types – Issues of Register and Genre
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FLAX Web Pronoun Phrases Collection Search (http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=p&sa=home&module=)
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Collocations
Which word goes before the following phrases?a. _________ the effects of…b. _________ the likelihood of future…c. _________ the cost of…d. _________ the number of people…e. _________ the poverty in…
Compleat Lexical Tutor (Tom Cobb)
http://www.lextutor.ca/
Web Collocations OERhttp://www.lextutor.ca/vp/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyZgZhHMovI 23
Collocation guessing game in FLAX
AWL Exercises (Nottingham)
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/index.htm 25
UEFAP (Andy Gillett)
http://www.uefap.com/index.htm 26
Specific EAP vocab (UEFAP)
http://www.uefap.com/vocab/vocfram.htm 27
Preparation (session two)
• More FLAX collections• Focus on specific subject language
• Samples of your own writing • Soft copy versions
• Reading, writing and vocabulary exercises
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