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Teacher Education for Languages with Technology / Formation des enseignants de langue avec les TICE
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Although corpora are now widely used in putting together ELT Dictionaries, and increasingly used in writing ELT materials, it is still rare, I think, for corpora, and especially for concordances to... 
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March 6, 5:38 PM
Nice post on using corpora for ELT without being a corpus linguist or a tech whiz. 
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April 13, 12:09 AM
A nice introduction to corpora and concordance tools and how they are useful in teaching languages and, by extension, translation. Delete the scoop?
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This is a 30-page PDF written for English students by Nadja Nesselhauf (University of Heidelberg). It gives basic definitions, examples of English corpora and analytical tools, as well as exercises and sample studies to allow the reader to understand both the kinds of questions corpus linguistics can tackle and how researchers go about answering them. Via Pascual Pérez-Paredes
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Very straightforward and informative presentation for interested language teachers and even for teaching. 
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Shona Whyte: A cornerstone post on open e-resources by Alannah Fitzgerald, "an open education practitioner and researcher working in the area of technology-enhanced learning for English Language Teaching (ELT)" and "doctoral candidate in Educational Technology at Concordia University." Delete the scoop?
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Start at about 8 minutes to skip the introductions. Delete the scoop?
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This video introduces some of the basics of the COCA interface including displays, wildcards and lemmatization. The video also discusses some introductory is... Via Pascual Pérez-Paredes
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Useful indeed. Language teachers typically use this kind of corpus to test their intuitions about usage, or in data-driven teaching send their learners to check their own vocabulary choices. But it's not particularly easy to get started with this database, so this video is a good place to start. Delete the scoop?
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