Studying and Teaching Vocabulary from Full Text with ICT tools,Jamal and the Night Visitors,James Thomas Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic,Text prediction,Does this predict a happy text? Why do you think so? http:/www.eat.rl.ac.uk/ Who are the people? What is their relationship? How old is the child? Is he an only child?,Where does it take place? What is the problem? What are the symptoms?,Word association thesaurus,The actual text: Why so colourful?,The actual text: legible,Isabella, 46, is the HR superintendent at the Nzoia Sugar Company in western Kenya. Jamal, 11, is her third and youngest child. For years, malaria made their lives a nightmare. Jamal was born a weak child, and was allergic to milk from the beginning. He was six months old when he suffered his first malaria attack, and from then on, was frequently ill with the mosquito-borne fever. Jamal was a very playful child. But right in the middle of a game, he would suddenly start to have a stomach ache and then a headache, Isabella says. The malaria attacked him every two weeks so he often had to go into hospital. This went on for a number of years.,Nothing new under the sun: The Hoey Procedure,Nothing new under the sun: The Hoey Procedure,Nothing new under the sun: The Hoey Procedure,What does this tell us? Why does this interest us?,Collocational chains,In Lexical Priming (Hoey, 2005:5-7), Michael Hoey analyses the collocational chains in a sentence from Brysons Neither Here Nor There (1991). He then finds how frequent the sentences chunks are in a corpus When sts observe chunks, something happens in their mind that relates it to their L1 (said by a conference participant).,The significance of significance,What does core mean?,What does core mean?,What does core mean?,What the Englishes have in common,Doing the Hoey Procedure,The British National Corpus as seen in the Sketch Engine. http:/bit.ly/ske_bnc,The value to language learning,Focus on form Observation Achievable task Recognising the value of frequency Double processing,The value to language learning,Focus on form Observation Achievable task Recognising the value of frequency Double processing,By double processing I assume you mean the need to process a text first for meaning and secondly as an exemplar of the language. This was most clearly stated in a paper by Tim Johns and Florence Davies in 1983. Peter Skehan (1998 A Cognitive Approach to Language Teaching ) also makes reference to it DAVE WILLIS,Its value to language learning,Focus on form Observation Achievable task Recognising the value of frequency Double processing,Language learning via the receptive skills of Reading Listening,Beyond chunks,Word templates Valency Templates of the key words in clauses. Let us look ,Beyond chunks,Isabella, 46, is the HR superintendent at the Nzoia Sugar Company in western Kenya. Someone (age) is job at company in country,Beyond chunks,For years, malaria made their lives a nightmare. Disease makes someones life a nightmare X makes Y a nightmare,allergic,Jamal was born a weak child, and was allergic to milk from the beginning.,PERSON is allergic to SUBSTANCE since/from ,Not a core use: A person is allergic to another person,Complex sentence,He was six months old when he suffered his first malaria attack, and from then on, was frequently ill with the mosquito-borne fever.,Someone was age when something happened PERSON suffered attack CREATURE is ill with something,One swallow doesnt make a summer,Thus far, we have observed templates in a single context. Building up their dossier of how words work. Sts are observing the templates of key vocabulary. Use Hoey Procedure to determine how frequent, norm, core each frame is.,Using our templates to make passive vocabulary active,X makes Y a nightmare This can be learnt and used a productive pattern. Using it is output. Using it is active use of vocabulary,SKELL,Typical productive task,What happens next in Jamals story? Work in groups Discuss Brainstorm ideas Structure them,Productive task,Brainstorm ideas Mindmap Software to embed it Get other peoples ideas Survey Write a survey report Structure the ideas collected Outline mode Co-author text.,Modes of presenting response. Text Presentation Voice only Vocaroo Video Voki (with voice) Xtranormal (with voice) Comic strip Devolver (without voice),http:/bit.ly/maelt_tools,How do sts improve their linguistic accuracy while creating their prediction?,Interaction Productive use of Pron Grammar Vocab Grammar of vocab Functional language of negotiating an artifact,Affordances,Create tasks for each other,What task do the sts provide for those who read, watch, listen to their finished product?,Feedback,Holistic general depth of thought quality Involvement Interaction Linguistic Well-used functional lang, frames of key vocab Etc.,Jing Example here http:/screencast.com/t/MmYzNTA2ODM,What was Jamals solution?,Was there a happy ending?,A happy ending,But one day when Jamal was