[Corpora-List] Data-Driven Learning materials

[Linda Bawcom]

Dear Alex,

I know of two internet sites where corpora can be used by students.

The first one is from Professor Daniel Kies' (College of Du Page in Illinois) The Hyper Textbook, a textbook he wrote for his composition course. One part is dedicated to  Conrad's The Heart of Darkness which he presents with strings from a concordancer  and then he  invites students to use a concordancer that he has set up. He also uses concordances in this hyper-textbook for examples in his explanations of grammar. By the way, this is not just your average run-of-the-mill 'grammar' book. It's worth browsing through if you teach composition or applied linguistics.

http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/grammar/conrad_heart_of_darkness.htm

The second on-line site is The Compleat (sic) Lexical Tutor for data driven language learning on the web. I strongly suggest browsing the tutorial first.

http://www.lextutor.ca/

Kindest regards,
Linda


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From: Alex Boulton <Alex.Boulton at univ-nancy2.fr>
To: CORPORA at UIB.NO
Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2008 4:55:30 AM
Subject: [Corpora-List] Data-Driven Learning materials

Dear all 

I'm trying to compile a list of published DDL materials for (L2) language learning -- not materials which are simply corpus-informed (from native-speaker or learner corpora), but where learners actually come into contact with corpus data. 

I'm particularly interested in books, CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMS or internet sites which are either wholly given over to DDL or which integrate DDL activities in part -- anything which shows publishers have shown an interest in DDL materials. (eg Tribble & Jones Concordances in the Classroom; Barlow & Burdine Phrasal Verbs in Business / American Phrasal Verbs; Thurston & Candlin Exploring Academic English; LingoNet VideoCorpus; etc.) 

While I'm mainly concerned with published materials, I'd also be interested in any links to other DDL resources which individuals or groups may have produced but not published, especially on-line -- again, not corpora, tools or interfaces on their own, but activities explicitly based on corpora. (eg Tim Johns' Virtual DDL Library / Kibbitzing One-to-Ones; Estling Vannestål & Lindquist's Corpora in Grammar Teaching; ICT4LT; etc.) 

The above examples are inevitable English-oriented, but materials in or about other languages would be more than welcome. 

I will of course post results to Corpora List, but I'd also like to create a web page which lists them as a complement to Tim Johns' data-driven learning page (last revised 06/02/97), and review as many as possible. I'd be grateful also then for URLs and references to published reviews and descriptions... or even free samples if you have them! 

Thanks in advance 
alex 
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