Grammar for InteractionsSpring 2016

IECPNikki Mattson

Groups

1. Fang + Hamad + Faris2. Juman + Bashayr3. Xin + Faisal Zaila + Mashari4. Tram + Abdulla + Faisal 5. Hassan + Hang

Agenda

• Syllabus distribution• Introduction to parts of speech and

sentence labeling• Introduction to corpus usage for

vocabulary• Corpus vocabulary activity

Syllabus

Parts of Speech? (Handout)

• Sentence labeling and error correction:• 1. The leaf is of interesting to scientists

because it may be a cancer cure.

The leaf is of interest to scientists because it may be a cancer cure.

Practice

Instructions: Work with a partner to copy, label, and correct the following sentence.

1. If more funds were allocated to urban renew, our cities would be much more beautiful.

2. There is almost no different between this drink and that drink.

3. The general found it difficult to explain the lost of six tanks in yesterday’s battle.

Labelling Key

What is a Corpus?• A very large collection of spoken and written texts that can be analyzed by

computers to see how people write and speak in the real world.

• The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is the largest freely-available corpus of English, and the only large and balancedc orpus of American English. The corpus was created by Mark Davies of Brigham Young University, and it is used by tens of thousands of users every month (linguists, teachers, translators, and other researchers).

• The corpus contains more than 450 million words of text and is equally divided among spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic texts.

Modelling

Conversation Starter

• Many laws state that a person is responsible for his/her own behavior in society. Who is responsible for a pet’s behavior in society? If a pet causes injury to a person or thing, should the owner be responsible for the pet’s independent behavior? Why/why not?

• (Law, Mohammed ALBadi)

Individual Vocabulary Study

1.gender (n) – 2.role (n) – 3.behavior (n) – 4.male (adj) –5.characteristic (n) -6.female (adj) – 7.reverse (n) – 8.masculine (adj) -9.feminine (adj) -10.Generally -

Go to this website: http://www.wordandphrase.info/frequencylist.aspEnter your word in the search box. Use a common phrase in your conversation starter.

Create a conversation starter, using on of the Pathways 1 words. You should share information from your field, and ask a related question that you think the class would benefit from discussing. Add your name and field at the end of your conversation starter.

HW

• Post your conversation starter to the course blog by midnight tonight. This is your first graded assignment for class