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Using concordances to

raise awareness of

grammatical patterns

Jenny Kemp jak26@le.ac.uk

St Andrews BALEAP

PIM June 20th 2015

What is a corpus?

principled

a collection of texts

What is a corpus?

principled

a collection of texts

quantitative

for analysis

qualitative

frequency

info

concordance lines

showing

patterns of use

Key

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Patterns of use

collocation

chunks/idioms

syntactic restrictions (word grammar/colligation)

semantic restrictions

semantic prosody

genre + context

Based on O’Keeffe et al (2007)

What is a corpus?

principled

a collection of texts

quantitative

for analysis

qualitative

frequency

info

concordance lines

showing

patterns of use

Tagged? Un-tagged?

Stages

Observe

Highlight

Extract

Use

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Stages

Observe

Highlight

Extract

Use

Stages

Observe

Highlight

Extract

Use

Published materials

CPE Past Papers 3 2004. CUP

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Create your own materials

Lextutor

(e.g. gapped concordance

and n-gram phrase extractor)

AntConchttp://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html

Wordsmith Tools

http://www.lexically.net/wordsmith/

ConcGram

[John Benjamins Publishing Co.]

Tools

http://www.wordle.net/

Guided practice 2 The BAWE corpus

Over to you…

What we do with advanced-level students in a

concordance workshop

Opportunity for practice

Key

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Learner Training

Ss already introduced to printed concordance output in

classes.

Awareness of concordancers as a self-study tool

Observe - Highlight – Extract - Use Methodology

Pa t t e r ns o f u se : mus t be 2 o r mo r e

Your worksheet

Student questions

Guided error correction practice

Preparing classes

Exploring other web tools

Pa t t e r ns o f u se : mus t be 2 o r mo r e

Thank you.

For references please

see your handout.

jenny.kemp@le.ac.uke.ac.uk

Choose your corpus

Observe, Highlight, Extract, Use