Interactive web-based learning of corpus-generated phrases

Authors

  • Dougal Graham King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi
  • Christopher Osment King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi

Keywords:

Corpus, English for Specific Purposes, Online, Data-Driven Learning, Formulaic Language

Abstract

This articlewill review the development of a partially-automated online teaching system developed to help intermediate-level engineering students learn appropriate English phrases in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) environment. The corpus containsapproximately 1.2 million words. Rather than focusing solely on keywords, these materials highlight useful collocations, and genre-specific uses of common words and phrases. The online interactive materials are able to generate a relatively large number of unique exercises for students.These exercise allow students to not only practice content that theyhave previously learned, butin facttolearn new material that they have not previously studied. In this way, the materials can be used either by students alone, or in conjunction with in-class use of the paper-based materials.

Downloads

Published

2014-05-15

How to Cite

Graham, D., & Osment, C. (2014). Interactive web-based learning of corpus-generated phrases. AsiaCALL Online Journal, 9(1), A1-A13. Retrieved from https://asiacall.info/acoj/index.php/journal/article/view/10

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2014): ISSN 1936-9859

Section

Articles

License

Copyright (c) 2020 Dougal Graham, Christopher Osment

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The copyright of all articles published in the AsiaCALL Online Journal (acoj) remains with the Authors, i.e. Authors retain full ownership of their article. Permitted third-party reuse of the open access articles is defined by the applicable Creative Commons (CC) end-user license which is accepted by the Authors upon submission of their paper. All articles in the acoj are published under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license, meaning that end users can freely share an article (i.e. copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt it (i.e. remix, transform and build upon the material) on the condition that proper attribution is given (i.e. appropriate credit, a link to the applicable license and an indication if any changes were made; all in such a way that does not suggest that the licensor endorses the user or the use) and the material is only used for non-commercial purposes. 

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository, in a journal or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process.