Addressing Academic Literacies with Corpus-based Open Educational Resources

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ADDRESSING ACADEMIC LITERACIES

Corpus-based Open Educational Resources

Alannah Fitzgerald

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TOETOE (ˈtɔɪtɔɪ)Technology for Open English – Toying with Open E-resources

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Overview:

• English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in Higher Education• Academic literacies• Published EAP resources

• Academic Vocabulary Lists• AWL vs AVLs• Corpus Of Contemporary

American (COCA) English• Linked data for enhanced OER• WordandPhrase & FLAX• British Academic Written English

(BAWE) OER

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Free language resource projectsFLAX, WordandPhrase, Lextutor, AntConc

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Publisher priority: black ‘n’ white teachers’ books

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• Going back to the source with open corpus-based resources and projects

• Keeping up with tools and trends from the research

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Publisher Priority: overreliance on textbooks EAP vs ESAPAWL vs AVLs

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Linked data for enhanced OER

http://www.flickr.com/photos/reedsturtevant/4288406152

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Academic Vocabulary ListsWordandPhrase Corpus of Contemporary American English

http://www.wordandphrase.info/academic/analyzeText.asp

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Academic vocabulary lists110-million words from COCA academic sub-corpus (2011)

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Academic sub-corpora & resources

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Academic genres

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Linked resources = super resources

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FLAX – Flexible Language AcquisitionFlexible Language Acquisition

library

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BAWE

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BAWE collections in FLAXBritish Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus

http://tinyurl.com/c42rekz

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Link to corpora, the web, thesauri...

http://tinyurl.com/cq2mtmg

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Link to Wikipedia

http://tinyurl.com/c42rekz

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Beyond the textbook

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BALEAP

Competencies with resources cut across the whole of the TEAP frameworkhttp://www.baleap.org.uk/baleap/parties-projects/eap-teacher-competencies/

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Beyond audience boundariesRussell Stannard - Teacher Training Videos

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com

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Your Text HerePHWOER!

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Email: fitzgerald@education.concordia.ca;

Blog: Technology for Open English – Toying with Open E-resources www.alannahfitzgerald.org

Twitter: @AlannahFitz

Slideshare:http://www.slideshare.net/AlannahOpenEd/