[Corpora-List] Data-Driven Learning materials

Tue Apr 15 23:09:30 UTC 2008

Dear Alex, 

Thanks for the summary and for collecting all these resources on a website
for teachers/learners -- and sorry I didn't get round to replying to your
query the first time around. 

I see that MICASE (the online version of the Michigan Corpus of Academic
Spoken English) is already on your list but wasn't sure if you had come
across the MICASE-derived teaching materials that are acessible through our
project website at http://legacyweb.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/index.htm
<blocked::http://legacyweb.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/index.htm> . There are a
number of materials (created by former and present members of the MICASE/ACL
team) on some common topics (and problem areas) in EAP and ESL teaching
(e.g. hedging or say-talk-tell) at
http://legacyweb.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/teaching.htm
<blocked::http://legacyweb.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/teaching.htm>  and two
interactive MICASE-based lessons for self-study (one on spoken academic
English formulas and one on clarifying and confirming) at
http://legacyweb.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/ESL/index.htm
<blocked::http://legacyweb.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/ESL/index.htm> . Also
worth adding to your list may be the MICASE Kibbitzer page (based on Tim
Johns's/David Oakey's Birmingham University Kibbitzers, see
http://www.eisu.bham.ac.uk/support/online/kibbitzers.shtml
<blocked::http://www.eisu.bham.ac.uk/support/online/kibbitzers.shtml> ) that
cover a number of language problems that students (and teachers) may want to
look into. There are, for instance, Kibbitzers on "Less and fewer" and on
"End up".The MICASE Kibbitzers are at 
http://legacyweb.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/ESL/index.htm
<blocked::http://legacyweb.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/ESL/index.htm> . 

All the best... Ute 

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Dr. Ute Römer
Director of the Applied Corpus Linguistics Unit
English Language Institute
University of Michigan
Email:  <blocked::mailto:uroemer at umich.edu> uroemer at umich.edu 
Phone: +1 734 763 7133 
Fax: +1 734 763 0369  
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/ <blocked::http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/>  
http://www.uteroemer.com <blocked::http://www.uteroemer.com/>  
MICASE: http://legacyweb.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/index.htm
<blocked::http://legacyweb.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/index.htm>  
MICUSP:  <blocked::http://www.micusp.org/> http://www.micusp.org  
Generation 1.5: http://gen15.micusp.org/ <blocked::http://gen15.micusp.org/>

Surface mail address: 
Dr. Ute Römer 
University of Michigan 
English Language Institute 
500 E. Washington Street 
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2028 
USA 

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From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of
Alex Boulton
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 4:03 PM
To: CORPORA at uib.no
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Data-Driven Learning materials

Dear all

I recently requested information on any published materials or on-line
materials adopting a data-driven learning approach. My thanks to the
following for their replies:

*	Adam Turner 

*	Chris Tribble 

*	Mike Barlow 

*	Brett Reynolds 

*	Stéphanie O’Riordan 

*	Antoinette Renouf 

*	James Thomas 

*	Linda Bawcom 

*	Marcia Veirano Pinto 

*	Przemek Kaszubski 

*	Simon Smith 

*	John Milton 

Unfortunately (if unsurprisingly), there were no real additions to the
publications I listed in the original mail. Is there really so little out
there? Why? One respondent commented that his name had been suggested to two
different publishers “to write a corpus book for teachers/students. Both of
them said they liked the idea and A said the world is not ready for it and B
said that they were already doing something on corpora at the time.”

Below are the main responses; I have a number of other links to resources
which I’ll include on a site I hope to set up this summer (linked from my
homepage at http://arche.univ-nancy2.fr/course/view.php?id=967). 

Some of the resources mentioned are already well-known and much-appreciated,
including the following:

*	Compleat Lexical Tutor by Tom Cobb and Chris Greaves with its many
resources  <http://www.lextutor.ca/> http://www.lextutor.ca/ (free) 

*	MICASE for academic spoken American English
<http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micase/> http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micase/
(free) 

*	Mark Davies' 360m-word BYU Corpus of American English and interface
to the British National Corpus among others
http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu/personal/ (free)

*	Mike Scott’s comprehensive WordSmith Tools for corpus analysis
http://www.lexically.net/wordsmith/ (a demo version can be downloaded free) 

*	SketchEngine by  <http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/> Adam Kilgarriff,
<http://www.fi.muni.cz/%7Epary/> Pavel Rychlý & Jan Pomikálek corpus
interface and word profiler http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/ (30-day free
trial) 

The following projects are mentioned by people closely connected with them;
comments are from their mails and/or from the sites themselves:

Adam Turner: Hanyang University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
<http://www.hanyangowl.org/> www.hanyangowl.org 
I have used the advanced search functions of Adobe PDF files with Korean
graduate students writing for publication in English especially in the
sciences. It is much more user-friendly than concordance software and can be
used almost immediately in the classroom. When combined with a specialized
small corpus it is very effective. I have received good feedback from
faculty who have taken workshops from me using this approach.
Not being an engineer but an English for Specific Purposes instructor, I
also used this approach to help me build up samples of text in the creation
of materials for engineering research writing which informed an in-house
guide to Engineering writing that I wrote.
The full-text of the book and the workshop handouts on how to use Google
Scholar and Adobe Acrobat advanced search functions with students and
faculty can be found here. Look under ESSENTIAL HANDOUTS on the right
sidebar.

Mike Barlow: CorpusLAB http://www.corpuslab.com/ 
CorpusLAB is a new FREE site for language learners and language teachers.
CorpusLAB is designed to make use of the results of corpus analysis to
promote language learning based on real English used in different settings. 
Students can use the site to take a variety of exercises created by
teachers. Go to the Student pages and select a topic area (Academic English,
Business English, etc.). If students register, they will be able to keep
track of their progress.
Teachers can use the site in different ways. The central engine of the site
is a series of exercise authoring tools. The exercises, fill-the-gap,
multiple-choice, matching, reorder, and categorise, follow the traditional
pattern, but they are designed in a way that promotes the learning of
collocations and phrasal patterns. For example, the matching exercise allows
up to five columns of items rather than the usual two, thereby providing
practice in a range of collocations and phrases. 
Another feature of the site is the sharing of corpus resources and
corpus-informed materials such as wordlists, handouts, ppts, etc. One of the
aims of the site is to build up resources for specialised English: Medical
English, English for Tourism, and so on. In addition, teachers have access
to a corpus of spoken professional English via a simple concordancer. A
utility for the analysis of potential teaching texts is also under
development.

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