Building a suite of online resources to support academic vocabulary learning

Building a suite of online resources to support academic vocabulary learning Stefania Spina Università per Stranieri di Perugia, Italia [email_address]

LELE: Linguistically-Enhanced Learning Environment ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],EUROCALL 2009 - Stefania Spina - Building a suite of online resources to support academic vocabulary learning

Origin ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],EUROCALL 2009 - Stefania Spina - Building a suite of online resources to support academic vocabulary learning

4 vocabulary categories ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],EUROCALL 2009 - Stefania Spina - Building a suite of online resources to support academic vocabulary learning

casa (home) mangiare (eat) biglietto (ticket) approccio (approach) elaborare (elaborate) consolidato (well-established)

Lexical tests on academic vocabulary

Three steps ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],EUROCALL 2009 - Stefania Spina - Building a suite of online resources to support academic vocabulary learning

Identifying academic words ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],EUROCALL 2009 - Stefania Spina - Building a suite of online resources to support academic vocabulary learning

Extraction of frequency list ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],EUROCALL 2009 - Stefania Spina - Building a suite of online resources to support academic vocabulary learning

The Academic Italian Word List (AIWL) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],EUROCALL 2009 - Stefania Spina - Building a suite of online resources to support academic vocabulary learning

Composition of the AIWL ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],EUROCALL 2009 - Stefania Spina - Building a suite of online resources to support academic vocabulary learning

From AIWL to a lexical database ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],EUROCALL 2009 - Stefania Spina - Building a suite of online resources to support academic vocabulary learning

il potenziale della tecnologia nella didattica text filtered 1. POS-tagged 2. compare with DB 3. match found il ART il potenziale NOUN potenziale della ARTPRE di tecnologia NOUN tecnologia potenziale NOUN potenziale

Database + POS tagger = disambiguation words that have different POS (tagger shows the appropriate linguistic information extracted from the database)

Student-generated glossary ,[object Object]

Learning advantages ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],EUROCALL 2009 - Stefania Spina - Building a suite of online resources to support academic vocabulary learning

Future work ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],EUROCALL 2009 - Stefania Spina - Building a suite of online resources to support academic vocabulary learning

Conclusions: Lele ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],EUROCALL 2009 - Stefania Spina - Building a suite of online resources to support academic vocabulary learning

References ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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