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Task-supported CALL in an English for Academic Purposes Course
James Sick
Daniel Jackson
Obirin University, Japan
Presented at: EUROCALL 2006 University of Granada, Spain
September 6th, 2006
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Task-supported CALL in an English for Academic Purposes Course
Introduction
• Overview of the EAP course
• EAP pedagogic corpus
• Computer-mediated communication tasks
• Discussion
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Task-supported CALL in an English for Academic Purposes Course
EAP pedagogic corpus
• What is a pedagogic corpus?
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Task-supported CALL in an English for Academic Purposes Course
EAP pedagogic corpus
• What is a pedagogic corpus?• “A corpus consisting of all the language a learner has been
exposed to. For most learners, their pedagogic corpus does not exist in physical form. If a teacher or researcher does decide to collect a pedagogic corpus, it can consist of all the course books, readers etc a learner has used, plus any tapes etc they have heard.” (Hunston, 2002)
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Task-supported CALL in an English for Academic Purposes Course
EAP pedagogic corpus
• What is the EAP pedagogic corpus?• A corpus of 12 reading texts used during the spring
semester of the EAP Reading course
• Includes newspaper articles, online news reports and student questionnaires
• Corpus size is about 12,000 words
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Task-supported CALL in an English for Academic Purposes Course
EAP pedagogic corpus
• How useful is a pedagogic corpus?• “The best way to exemplify language for learners is to
draw their attention to … texts which are familiar to them.” (Willis, 2003)
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Task-supported CALL in an English for Academic Purposes Course
EAP pedagogic corpus
• How useful is a pedagogic corpus?• “The best way to exemplify language for learners is to
draw their attention to … texts which are familiar to them.” (Willis, 2003)
1. Process reading text for meaning
2. Consciousness-raising (C-R) activities
3. Recycle language in writing activities
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Task-supported CALL in an English for Academic Purposes Course
EAP pedagogic corpus
• How useful is a pedagogic corpus?• “The best way to exemplify language for learners is to
draw their attention to … texts which are familiar to them.” (Willis, 2003)
• The corpus is a tool to raise awareness of lexical items in reading materials that students can recycle in their writing
1. Process reading text for meaning
2. Consciousness-raising (C-R) activities
3. Recycle language in writing activities
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Task-supported CALL in an English for Academic Purposes Course
EAP pedagogic corpus
• Example text from the EAP corpus
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Task-supported CALL in an English for Academic Purposes Course
EAP pedagogic corpus
• Example text from the EAP corpus
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EAP pedagogic corpus
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EAP pedagogic corpus
to study hard and think carefully about own future.
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EAP pedagogic corpus
to study hard and think carefully about own future.
are always idling away.
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EAP pedagogic corpus
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Task-supported CALL in an English for Academic Purposes Course
EAP pedagogic corpus
motivate
Furthermore
job
credits
attitude
ensure
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• “A task-supported approach”
• Integrating CMC tasks into the course
• Tasks used in the course
• Classroom procedures
• Student interaction during CMC tasks
Task-supported CALL in an English for Academic Purposes Course
Computer-mediated communication tasks
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• What is a task-supported approach?• “Here tasks are not seen as a means by which
learners acquire new knowledge or restructure their interlanguages but simply as a means by which learners can activate their existing knowledge of the L2 by developing fluency.” (Ellis, 2003, p. 30)
Task-supported CALL in an English for Academic Purposes Course
Computer-mediated communication tasks
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• How do CMC tasks fit into the course?
• “the formality and complexity of language in electronic discussion suggests that it might be an excellent medium for pre-writing work” (Warschauer, 1997, p. 22)
1. Focus on lexis in the EAP reading course
2. Tasks designed to make pedagogic corpus vocabulary useful
3. Rehearse words in a collaborative, text-based environment
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Computer-mediated communication tasks
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DebateJigsawDecision-making
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Computer-mediated communication tasks
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• Classroom procedures:• Students did three CMC tasks in dyads • Task sheets were distributed at the start of
class• Teachers provided a brief oral explanation• Students logged in to the chat• 20 minutes allocated for each task…
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Task-supported CALL in an English for Academic Purposes Course
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