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Current trends in FLT
Communicative Language Teaching Trends within CLT
authentic language contextualised language focus on form learner independence/autonomy language awareness
Application 1
More accurate description of language frequency of words and grammatical features meanings of words extended units of meaning – phraseology collocations
Identifying problematic areas for L2 learners (learner corpora)
Syllabus design (especially ESP courses) Production of teaching materials
authentic examples learners’ dictionaries
More accurate description of language
Information on word frequency in dictionaries
example from Collins COBUILD Dictionary
More accurate description of language
Arrangment order of word meaningsexamples from Oxford and Longman Dictionaries
The Academic Wordlist
Here is a corpus-based list of words that are particularly frequent in academic English, irrespective of the discipline
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/academic/
This/that/these/those The following slide shows how frequently
determiners are used by two groups of Polish upper-intermediate (Comp2) and advanced (Comp4) learners of English as well as native-speaking expert writers – journalists (BNCWA).
Can you see any problems in the use of determiners by Polish learners of English?
The following two slides illustrate possible post-modification patterns of the determiner those.
Study the table. Can you see any differences in the post-modification patterns between Polsih learners of English and native expert writers?
Application 2
Data-driven learning (Tim Johns, University of Birmingham)students consult a corpus discovery learning increases motivation and interest the results are more lasting
DDL
Option A the teacher sets the task and asks
students to consult pre-selected citations unedited concordance lines
the teacher is more in control and knows what students will find
Option A
Presentation stage looking for examples for a particular
word/phrase/structure in a corpus studying concordance lines to look for
different meanings, collocations, colligations or translations (in the case of parallel corpora)
Practice stage finding missing words in concordance lines
DDL Option B
the student (together with the teacher) looks for an answer to a particular problem that has arisen from the student’s language use
more open-ended and unpredictable
Tim Johns’ Kibbitzershttp://lexically.net/TimJohns/index.html
MICASE Kibbitzershttp://micase.elicorpora.info/researchers/micase-kibbitzers