Presented at the Open University on July 11, 2012 for the event entitled: Open tools for teaching and learning:corpora and e-portfolios

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ADDRESSING ACADEMIC
LITERACIES
Corpus-based Open Educational Resources
Alannah Fitzgerald

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TOETOE (ˈt ɪtɔɪ)
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Technology for Open English – Toying with Open E-resources
Overview:
• English for Academic Purposes
(EAP) in Higher Education
• Academic literacies
• Published EAP resources
• Academic Vocabulary Lists
• AWL vs AVLs
• Corpus Of Contemporary
American (COCA) English
• Linked data for enhanced OER
• WordandPhrase & FLAX
• British Academic Written English
(BAWE) OER
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60810582@N04/

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Free language resource projects
FLAX, WordandPhrase, Lextutor, AntConc
AntConc video tutorials
h p://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_index.html

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Publisher priority: black ‘n’ white teachers’ books

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Publisher Priority: overreliance on textbooks
EAP vs ESAP
AWL vs AVLs
• Going back to
the source
with open
corpus-based
resources
and projects
• Keeping up
with tools and
trends from
the research
http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/ProductDetails.aspx?productId=9780131833081#

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Linked data for enhanced OER
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reedsturtevant/4288406152

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Academic Vocabulary Lists
WordandPhrase Corpus of Contemporary American English
http://www.wordandphrase.info/academic/analyzeText.asp

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Academic vocabulary lists
110-million words from COCA academic sub-corpus (2011)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reedsturtevant/4288406152

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Academic sub-corpora & resources

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Academic genres

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Linked resources = super resources

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FLAX – Flexible Language Acquisition
Flexible Language Acquisition
library

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BAWE

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BAWE collections in FLAX
British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus
http://tinyurl.com/c42rekz

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Link to corpora, the web, thesauri...
http://tinyurl.com/cq2mtmg

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Link to Wikipedia
http://tinyurl.com/c42rekz

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Beyond the textbook

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BALEAP
Competencies with resources cut across the whole of the TEAP framework
http://www.baleap.org.uk/baleap/parties-projects/eap-teacher-competencies/

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Beyond audience boundaries
Russell Stannard - Teacher Training Videos
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com

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Email: fitzgerald@education.concordia.ca;
Blog: Technology for Open English – Toying with Open E-resources
www.alannahfitzgerald.org
Twitter: @AlannahFitz
Slideshare:http://www.slideshare.net/AlannahOpenEd/