9. Other tools and activities

Web as a corpus
http://webascorpus.org/
http://www.webcorp.org.uk/live/

Study the two sites listed above. They produce concordances using Internet texts. Run one search. How do the results vary from classic corpus searches? Think of advantages and disadvantages of both. Be prepared to discuss your ideas with your classmates.

Compleat Lexical Tutor
http://www.lextutor.ca/

Attention: To take a full advantage of all the functionalities of this site, open it in the Internet Explorer
1.    Read the Tutorial
2.    Test your command of English Vocabulary at the 8000-word level (in Test your lexis).
3.    In List Learn, study 10 words you do not know from the 8000-word level
•    Click on a new word
•    Study its concordances
•    Check its meaning in the dictionary linked to this page
•    Choose the most suitable concordance line and copy it to the box below, note down the basic meaning.
4.    After you finish working on your chosen 10 words save the results in an Excel file and submit it.
5.    Explore various tools available from this site, especially exercise creators such as Dictator and Multicon.

AWL Highlighter
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/awlhighlighter.htm

1.    Open the address below and navigate around the site for a moment. Read about the functionalities of the site.
2.    Follow one of the links to authentic English texts, find a suitable text for EFL learners at the upper-intermediate level.
3.    Create an AWL gap-filling activity based on your chosen text and submit it.

 

MICASE

Follow the links listed above and browse through the activities created within the MICASE project.

http://micase.elicorpora.info/esl-eap-teaching-materials
http://micase.elicorpora.info/esl-self-study-activities