This presentation will introduce concordancing as a means of investigating language. Words will be analysed in terms of their typical behaviours and patterns. By applying this approach, words can be categorised into 'families' for a more organic and authentic description of language.
Practical classroom applications will be demonstrated with a number of exercises, tasks and handouts for students at different levels. Participants will engage in materials development and concordancing tasks with genuine corpus data to investigate and evaluate this approach.
BIO
Matt Smith received his MA TEFL from The University of Birmingham and has
been teaching in Japan for the last ten years. He is currently teaching at Chubu
University where his interests include the study of learner corpora and teaching academic
writing.
Date:! ! Saturday, April 17, 2010 - 19:00-21:00
Venue: Gifu JR Station – Heartful Square 2nd Floor
