JSFF_TT_01 Using Corpora in Language Education

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2013
Extent and Intensity
0/30. Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
James Edward Thomas, M.A. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Language School – Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Alžbeta Chovančíková
Supplier department: Language School – Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
SOUHLAS
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course is designed primarily for language teachers in any system: schools, private institutions, universities. It is valuable to teachers who have a lexico-grammatical view of language, and who understand or would like to understand the highly patterned nature of human language, and how this translates into teaching.

With access to corpora in over 25 languages, this course suits teachers of any languages, but the course is conducted in English and most of the examples are in English.
Syllabus
  • Day One
  • General Introductions
  • Meet the Sketch Engine
  • Introduction to Sketch Engine tools
  • Significance of frequency. Stringnet navigator
  • Supervised practice session
  • Day Two
  • Collocation and the Lexical Approach
  • Collocation in language teaching
  • Word Sketches
  • Sketch Differences and colligation
  • Applications of these tools to language teaching
  • Day Three
  • Correcting student writing using corpus tools
  • Other corpus tools: VIEW, PIE, JTW
  • e-learning course integration
  • Supervised practice session
  • Day Four
  • Corpus Query Language
  • Creating your own corpora
  • Using your own corpora
  • Supervised practice session
  • Day Five
  • Creating teaching resources from own corpora
  • Preparation of presentation
  • Presentation of achievements
  • Closing down, feedback, farewells.
Teaching methods
The course is taught at computers, whether those supplied by the participants or the deparment. It is therefore a very hands on course. However, considerable background is provided in the areas of language learning and pedgagocial linguistics. Readings and discussions combine with corpus searches to arrive at relevant ways of applying corpus work to language teaching.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Note related to how often the course is taught: July 1st to 5th.
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