GUIDED CONCORDANCE ANALYSIS FOR LEARNING VOCABULARY USAGE AND GRAMMAR

Fanny Law & Cherry Ngai

San Francisco State University

OVERVIEW OF PRESENTATION1) Background Teaching context:

University-level ESL young adultsIntermediate level writing course

Approach:Teacher-led in classroom to Student-led at home

2) Demo 1 – Collocates Demo 2 – Concordance lines

3) Teaching suggestions

DEMO 1 – COLLOCATES

Preposition after Adjectives

Sample error: I’m enthusiastic at working on the project.

JUST THE WORD

DEMO 2 – CONCORDANCE LINES

excited vs exciting

Sample Error: 1) I’m exciting. 2) This is an excited story.

EXCITED

benefits women outside the classroom, I'm excited about my options.

As girls ages 8 through 15, we're so excited that Malia and Sasha will be in the White House!

She knows what people expect of her. She's excited.

" Who Has the Sexier Burger Commercial?

There was a place for outsiders. I was really excited to belong to this culture.

choice to run for higher office. " I was excited for her, " she says.

New York City area to try to get the staffs excited about preventing schizophrenia among their students.

from live subjects in a studio. I'm more excited by the landscape, and I don't think there is anything

by such great masters as Corot have excited a rebirth of the plein air genre.

Astroinfluences How do you get kids excited about astronomy? Kids are naturally curious.

If you're the kind of observer who can get excited about seeing one or two of these flaming " stars "

EXCITING

legislative mandates that attacked women's rights. These are exciting times of high hopes-and yet there are already crushing

the women rushing over. Oh, absolutely, it's exciting. It's intoxicating. But it's not real. "

the engine roaring underneath--it's wild and free and exciting, " he says. " It's probably the same way the guy felt

Hooked on hockey Blackhawks hockey is so exciting, especially if you get to go to the games.

And yet--what if you can? The most exciting research in mental health today involves not how to treat

wild effects caused by freezing paint to be exciting, but I'm interested in a more traditional, controlled approach

these masterpieces in museums and books is an exciting window into a lost tradition, just as landscape sketches

more permanent than what I ate for dinner today. It's exciting that there are facts about the world out there that we can discover.

usually in entirely unforeseen ways.' It's exciting that there are facts about the world out there

what triggers dramatic surges in the aurora called substorms. Exciting space science close to home included the MESSENGER

SENTENCE STRUCTURES

Excited Exciting

I'm excited about my options. These are exciting times…

She's excited. The most exciting research…

…we're so excited … …it's exciting.

How do you get kids excited about astronomy?

It's exciting that there are facts…

SUGGESTIONS

Procedures of this presentation:

Step 1: Students hand in writings Step 2: Teacher provides specific feedback Step 3: Corpus-based tools demo Step 4: Independent exploration

SUGGESTIONS CON’T

Others: Proofreading Grammar—inductive & deductive Vocabulary—collocation Registers—spoken vs. written & different

genres Prefixes and Suffixes Lexical bundles—phrases / chunks English for Specific Purposes

CORPUS-BASED RESOURCES COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English)

http://www.americancorpus.org/ MICASE (Spoken English)

http://micase.elicorpora.info/ Just the Word (British National Corpus)

http://193.133.140.102/jtwt/ Compleat Lexical Tutor

http://www.lextutor.ca/ Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

http://www.ldoceonline.com/o AntConc 3.2.1

http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html Academic Word List

http://www.uefap.com/vocab/vocfram.htm

THANK YOU!

HAVE FUN WITH CORPORA!

Fanny Law fannylaw@sfsu.edu

Cherry Ngai ngai@sfsu.edu