Openness in English Language Teaching
Alannah Fitzgerald, Terri Edwards, Jeff Davidson & Lesley Kendall
Overview • Training with corpora & text analysis tools – OER Cascade at Durham University
• Overview of tools & collecGons – FLAX, Lextutor, AntConc
• Feed back & feed forward – Teacher Training Videos with Russell Stannard – Design-based research cycle – OERu, BALEAP, DUELC
FLAX – Flexible Language Acquisi7on Flexible Language Acquisi7on
library
BAWE
FLAX – Learning Colloca7ons (BNC, BWE, Wikipedia)
FLAX – Learning Colloca7ons (related colloca7ons, defini7ons, topics)
Cherry picking phrases
Brainstorm keywords from your subject/topic area and fill your cherry basket!
Lextutor
22/04/17
http://www.lextutor.ca
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VocabProfile + Web Colloca7ons OER hZp://www.lextutor.ca/vp/
hZp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyZgZhHMovI 9
AWL – published sample
AWL – student sample
VocabProfile edit & check RE-VP
Every country would like to establish themselves as a dominant superpower in the areas of economics and poliGcs. America’s superpower status can be felt throughout the globe, and countries overseas are oeen required to adapt to American-style legislaGon that has been imposed as a result of foreign policy decisions made in America. Nevertheless, predicGons about America’s imminent global decline are evident and the quesGon remains as to which country will become the next economic superpower.
AntConc freeware – build your own corpus
hZp://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/soeware.html
AntConc video tutorials
hZp://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_index.html
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com
Russell Stannard Teacher Training Videos
Thank you
Email: alannah.fi
[email protected];
[email protected] Blog: Technology for Open English – Toying with Open E-resources www.alannahfitzgerald.org Twi-er: @AlannahFitz Slideshare:hZp://www.slideshare.net/AlannahOpenEd/
