addressing academic literacies with corpus-based open educational resources
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Presented at the Open University on July 11, 2012 for the event entitled: Open tools for teaching and learning:corpora and e-portfoliosTRANSCRIPT
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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
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60810582@N04/
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
http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/ProductDetails.aspx?productId=9780131833081#
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)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reedsturtevant/4288406152
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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: [email protected];
Blog: Technology for Open English – Toying with Open E-resources www.alannahfitzgerald.org
Twitter: @AlannahFitz
Slideshare:http://www.slideshare.net/AlannahOpenEd/