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Public Lecture Series Language Learning & Technology
Dr Wang Lixun, 12 Apr. 2014
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Question 1: What technologies do you use to handle language related activities in your daily life? Please give some examples.
Question 2: What do you expect to learn from today’s lecture?
Language and Technology
Overview
Technology and speech
Technology and writing
Computer-assisted Language Learning
Mobile-assisted Language Learning
Summary
Technology and speech
Speech Recognition
Speech Analysis Software
Text-to-speech Synthesizer
Speech recognition
iPhone Siri demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKRwV3DTVLo
Google Voice Actions for Android http://lifehacker.com/everything-you-didnt-know-you-could-do-with-google-voi-512727229
Dragon dictation (app) http://www.nuance.com/for-individuals/mobile-applications/dragon-dictation/index.htm
Text-to-speech synthesizers
AT&T Text-to-speech http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
Natural Reader 10.0 http://www.naturalreaders.com/
iSpeech (app) http://www.ispeech.org
Speech analysis software
Praat: doing phonetics by computer http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/
Online English Pronunciation Learning
HKIEd English Pronunciation Learning site http://corpus.ied.edu.hk/phonetics/
Pratt Beginners’ Manual http://corpus.ied.edu.hk/phonetics_and_phonology/wordpress
Technology and writing
Word Processing
Wikibook
Presentation software
Word processing
Microsoft Word: revolutionised the way we write
Powerful editing features
Spelling check fast, convenient
but a dictionary will show more
Grammar check convenient
but very limited
Some suggestions not accurate
Presentation software
PowerPoint
Prezi (http://prezi.com)
A Prezi demo http://prezi.com/mkg9y_pl1cxd/presentation-on-presentations/
Wikibook
Wikibook (www.wikibooks.org)
A Sample Wikibook project https://sites.google.com/site/2013introlinguistics1/ collaborative writing peer commenting process writing maximum accessibility durable reference valuable contribution to the field sense of satisfaction
Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
“Any process in which a learner uses a computer and, as a result, improves his or her language.” (Beatty, 2010, p.7)
Becoming more and more popular thanks in large part to the developing technologies such as Multimedia computing, the Internet, and the World Wide Web.
An online course on CALL
http://www2.nkfust.edu.tw/~emchen/CALL/
Computer-assisted language learning
Electronic dictionaries
Language games
Machine translation
Multimedia-assisted learning
Online language learning resources
Online communication
Corpus-based language learning
Mobile-assisted language learning
An expansion of the concept of Computer-assisted language learning: Learners use their mobile devices to assist their language learning. (Burton, 2013)
Electronic dictionaries
Marriam-Webster dictionary (app) http://www.Merriam-Webster.com
Longman (app): http://www.ldoceonline.com/
You Dao (有道詞典) (app):
http://www.chinalanguage.com/
Machine Translation
She worked in the oil production plant.
Is the plant a (vegetation = 植物) or (factory =工廠) ?
Is the oil (cooking oil =烹調用油) or (petroleum =石油)
Does (work) here mean (succeed =成功) or
(operate =能操作) or (be employed =雇用) ?
Machine Translation
Google Translate http://translate.google.com/
Bing Translator
http://www.bing.com/translator/
Language Games
Average American 8-18 years old play computer games 13 hrs per week
JackAss
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wordscape/software-new.html
Hangman
http://www.billsgames.com/hangman/ Crossword puzzles
http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/xword/XWordApp/default.htm
Language Games: Apps
iLearn with Boing
Fun English by StudyCat
Mingoville English
Multimedia-assisted learning
Simulation
Second Life http://secondlife.com/
SimCity http://www.simcity.com
Multimedia-assisted learning
Electronic storybooks
Flash: The Very Hungry Caterpillar http://home.ied.edu.hk/~lixun/Sample_ebook_Caterpillar.swf
PPT: Here Come the Pirates
Multimedia-assisted learning
Electronic storybooks apps
Pinocchio, Snow White, Barney’s storybook Treasury, Peter Pan Adventures, Goldilocks and the Three Bears ……
Multimedia-assisted learning
Creative writing: Film making Dvolver MovieMaker http://www.dvolver.com/moviemaker
Online Communication
Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Instagram
Communication apps: Whatsapp, WeChat, Line, Viber, Skype, QQ
Online resources
BBC Learning English http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish
Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab http://www.esl-lab.com/
HKIEd Language Arts websites http://engres.ied.edu.hk/lang_arts/lang_arts.html
WebQuests http://questgarden.com (Quest Garden) http://zunal.com/ (Zunal WebQuest Maker)
English learning Apps
HKIEd Mobile Seamless Language Learning http://www.hkiedmsll.org Learn English Grammar (British Council) VOA Special English Busuu TED
Corpus-base language learning
Corpus (plural corpora) is a collection of linguistic data, either compiled as written texts or as a transcription of recorded speech.
Why use corpus? Only when words are in their habitual environments, presented in their most frequent forms and their relational patterns and structures, can they be learnt effectively, interpreted properly and used appropriately.
(Wu, 1992:32)
cause vs. lead to
Anything wrong with the following sentence?
Although economic improvement may be caused by tourism, the investment and operational costs of tourism must also be considered.
Web Concordancer Monolingual and Parallel Web Concordancer
(EC-Concord, Wang & Greaves)
http://ec-concord.ied.edu.hk/paraconc/
Web Concordancer
Concordance lines in Key-Word-In-Context (KWIC) format
cause vs. lead to
Improved version:
Although tourism may lead to economic improvement, the investment and operational costs of tourism must also be considered.
Different types of corpora
HKIEd Corpus Linguistics page http://corpus.ied.edu.hk/
Summary
Technology has changed the way we use and study language.
Technology will continue to help us to solve more and more language related problems.
Language teaching and learning is moving towards a new direction (computer/mobile-assisted language learning), it is becoming more and more learner-centred and autonomous.
Bibliography
Beatty, K. (2010) Teaching and Researching Computer-assisted Language Learning (2nd Ed.). London: Longman
Burton, J. (2013). Mobile-assisted language learning: a selected annotated bibliography of implementation studies 1994-2012, Language Learning and Technology, 17(3), 157-225.
Hubbard, P. and Levy M. (Eds.) (2006) Teacher Education in CALL. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
