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Public Lecture Series Language Learning & Technology

Dr Wang Lixun, 12 Apr. 2014

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Question 1: What technologies do you use to handle language related activities in your daily life? Please give some examples.

Question 2: What do you expect to learn from today’s lecture?

Language and Technology

Overview

Technology and speech

Technology and writing

Computer-assisted Language Learning

Mobile-assisted Language Learning

Summary

Technology and speech

Speech Recognition

Speech Analysis Software

Text-to-speech Synthesizer

Speech recognition

iPhone Siri demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKRwV3DTVLo

Google Voice Actions for Android http://lifehacker.com/everything-you-didnt-know-you-could-do-with-google-voi-512727229

Dragon dictation (app) http://www.nuance.com/for-individuals/mobile-applications/dragon-dictation/index.htm

Text-to-speech synthesizers

AT&T Text-to-speech http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

Natural Reader 10.0 http://www.naturalreaders.com/

iSpeech (app) http://www.ispeech.org

Speech analysis software

Praat: doing phonetics by computer http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

Online English Pronunciation Learning

HKIEd English Pronunciation Learning site http://corpus.ied.edu.hk/phonetics/

Pratt Beginners’ Manual http://corpus.ied.edu.hk/phonetics_and_phonology/wordpress

Technology and writing

Word Processing

Wikibook

Presentation software

Word processing

Microsoft Word: revolutionised the way we write

Powerful editing features

Spelling check fast, convenient

but a dictionary will show more

Grammar check convenient

but very limited

Some suggestions not accurate

Presentation software

PowerPoint

Prezi (http://prezi.com)

A Prezi demo http://prezi.com/mkg9y_pl1cxd/presentation-on-presentations/

Wikibook

Wikibook (www.wikibooks.org)

A Sample Wikibook project https://sites.google.com/site/2013introlinguistics1/ collaborative writing peer commenting process writing maximum accessibility durable reference valuable contribution to the field sense of satisfaction

Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)

“Any process in which a learner uses a computer and, as a result, improves his or her language.” (Beatty, 2010, p.7)

Becoming more and more popular thanks in large part to the developing technologies such as Multimedia computing, the Internet, and the World Wide Web.

An online course on CALL

http://www2.nkfust.edu.tw/~emchen/CALL/

Computer-assisted language learning

Electronic dictionaries

Language games

Machine translation

Multimedia-assisted learning

Online language learning resources

Online communication

Corpus-based language learning

Mobile-assisted language learning

An expansion of the concept of Computer-assisted language learning: Learners use their mobile devices to assist their language learning. (Burton, 2013)

Electronic dictionaries

Marriam-Webster dictionary (app) http://www.Merriam-Webster.com

Longman (app): http://www.ldoceonline.com/

You Dao (有道詞典) (app):

http://www.chinalanguage.com/

Machine Translation

She worked in the oil production plant.

Is the plant a (vegetation = 植物) or (factory =工廠) ?

Is the oil (cooking oil =烹調用油) or (petroleum =石油)

Does (work) here mean (succeed =成功) or

(operate =能操作) or (be employed =雇用) ?

Machine Translation

Google Translate http://translate.google.com/

Bing Translator

http://www.bing.com/translator/

Language Games

Average American 8-18 years old play computer games 13 hrs per week

JackAss

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wordscape/software-new.html

Hangman

http://www.billsgames.com/hangman/ Crossword puzzles

http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/xword/XWordApp/default.htm

Language Games: Apps

iLearn with Boing

Fun English by StudyCat

Mingoville English

Multimedia-assisted learning

Simulation

Second Life http://secondlife.com/

SimCity http://www.simcity.com

Multimedia-assisted learning

Electronic storybooks

Flash: The Very Hungry Caterpillar http://home.ied.edu.hk/~lixun/Sample_ebook_Caterpillar.swf

PPT: Here Come the Pirates

Multimedia-assisted learning

Electronic storybooks apps

Pinocchio, Snow White, Barney’s storybook Treasury, Peter Pan Adventures, Goldilocks and the Three Bears ……

Multimedia-assisted learning

Creative writing: Film making Dvolver MovieMaker http://www.dvolver.com/moviemaker

Online Communication

Email

Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Instagram

Communication apps: Whatsapp, WeChat, Line, Viber, Skype, QQ

Online resources

BBC Learning English http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish

Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab http://www.esl-lab.com/

HKIEd Language Arts websites http://engres.ied.edu.hk/lang_arts/lang_arts.html

WebQuests http://questgarden.com (Quest Garden) http://zunal.com/ (Zunal WebQuest Maker)

English learning Apps

HKIEd Mobile Seamless Language Learning http://www.hkiedmsll.org Learn English Grammar (British Council) VOA Special English Busuu TED

Corpus-base language learning

Corpus (plural corpora) is a collection of linguistic data, either compiled as written texts or as a transcription of recorded speech.

Why use corpus? Only when words are in their habitual environments, presented in their most frequent forms and their relational patterns and structures, can they be learnt effectively, interpreted properly and used appropriately.

(Wu, 1992:32)

cause vs. lead to

Anything wrong with the following sentence?

Although economic improvement may be caused by tourism, the investment and operational costs of tourism must also be considered.

Web Concordancer Monolingual and Parallel Web Concordancer

(EC-Concord, Wang & Greaves)

http://ec-concord.ied.edu.hk/paraconc/

Web Concordancer

Concordance lines in Key-Word-In-Context (KWIC) format

cause vs. lead to

Improved version:

Although tourism may lead to economic improvement, the investment and operational costs of tourism must also be considered.

Different types of corpora

HKIEd Corpus Linguistics page http://corpus.ied.edu.hk/

Summary

Technology has changed the way we use and study language.

Technology will continue to help us to solve more and more language related problems.

Language teaching and learning is moving towards a new direction (computer/mobile-assisted language learning), it is becoming more and more learner-centred and autonomous.

Bibliography

Beatty, K. (2010) Teaching and Researching Computer-assisted Language Learning (2nd Ed.). London: Longman

Burton, J. (2013). Mobile-assisted language learning: a selected annotated bibliography of implementation studies 1994-2012, Language Learning and Technology, 17(3), 157-225.

Hubbard, P. and Levy M. (Eds.) (2006) Teacher Education in CALL. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

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Dr Wang Lixun (lixun@ied.edu.hk)