call-based eap: from computer lab to classroom ingrid barth nitza davidovitch
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CALL-based EAP: From Computer Lab
to Classroom
Ingrid BarthNitza Davidovitch
Bridging the Gap
Between the ideal and the real….
Presentation Topics
How to use the computer to develop
more effective print-based materials
for students without computers.
Computer-enhanced
Print-based Materials
Using a text-processing application
to produce an integrated package
of print-based materials
Agenda
Students who work from print-based course-books.
Students who need to pass IELTS or TOEFL. Students who need to learn subject-
specific academic words and phrases AS WELL AS general academic vocabulary (Coxhead’s AWL).
.
Teachers who want to Move from High School English to
College English. Move from EAP towards ESAP.
Highlighting Vocabulary in Context.
Our text-processing application gives us the flexibility to highlight any list of subject-specific and general academic words and phrases in any collection of texts.
AWL Vocabulary in Context
Soon thereafter Desmond Morris, curator at the Zoological society of London, and R. F. Ewer of the University of Ghana independently concluded on behavioral and morphological grounds that the giant panda belonged in the raccoon family. That view was endorsed in 1986 by a team of Chinese scientists including several from the Beijing Zoo and Beijing University, who published a lengthy anatomical account of the panda.
Such problems reflect the difficulties encountered by scientists who must identify species and determine their relationships to other organisms.
Why ANOTHER
text-processing/frequency counter
application?!
Subject-specific Vocabulary
Inflation initially increases business profits, as wages and other costs lag behind price increases, leading to more capital investment and payments of dividends and interest. Personal spending may increase because of “buy now, it will cost more later” attitudes; potential real estate price appreciation may attract buyers. Domestic inflation may temporarily improve the balance of trade if the same volume of exports are
Limitations of Existing Applications
Many research-related terms and phrases are excluded from general academic word lists.
Examples of missing words and phrases:experimentcorrelationcontrol grouprepresentative sample
Frequency Count at Word Level
How many times does each word on the vocabulary list appear throughout the entire body of texts?
word frequency word frequency
consist 17 constrain 4
constant 5 construct 7
constitute 9 consult 6
Agenda
Explicit emphasis on vocabulary :
What does the theory and research say?
(The bottom line…)
4. Why Does This Work?4. Why Does This Work?
1. Research shows that vocabulary is the single strongest predictor of reading comprehension.
2. Vocabulary forms the base for listening, speaking and writing as well as reading.
3. Since the 1980’s, many studies show
that incidental learning of vocabulary is not effective enough in L2.
Highlighting vocabulary in context creates conditions for effective
L2 vocabulary acquisition:
1. Noticing
2. Retrieving (surface processing).
3. Generating (deep processing).
4. Incremental multiple exposures to target vocabulary.
Effective Vocabulary Acquisition
Generating versus “drill and kill”:
The missing link in the chain
Feature
Planned recycling
of target vocabulary
Relative Advantage
• Individual texts complement and reinforce each other to form a coherent whole.
Text processing application
Text processing application
VocabMaster-
list
VocabMaster-
list
ExercisesExercises
VocabLists
VocabLists
Body ofTexts
Package Components
Functions of the Master-List
Pedagogic Pedagogic Pedagogic Pedagogic
“Charts the Territory” •Defines thetask ahead
Running Summary•Allows students to monitor their own progress
DiagnosticTool • Students identify which words
are still not mastered
Yardstick ofProgress•Students see how each lessoncontributes to the final target
Research Directions
Research Research Research Research
Pre-test of entry-level vocabulary
Post-test:Who benefits from what-Learner variables that correlatewith student achievement
Establishing Error PatternsIdentifies which words prove difficult to remember and why
Establish Recycling Rates required for specificcategories of words
First Step –Pre-text Vocab
Vocabulary
list
What does it mean to know a word?
Ellis, N. (1995). Vocabulary Acquisition: Psychological perspectives.
Nation, P. (1994). New Ways in Teaching Vocabulary.
Wallace, M.J. (1982) Teaching Vocabulary.
WHAT IT MEANS TO "KNOW" A WORD
Recognize it in its spoken form. What are its parts of speech – how to use it in
its appropriate form. Word families. Collocations – what words go together with this
word? Context – what are its different meanings? Connotations, associations, level of formality.
Second StepReading and Noticing
Vocab in textVocabulary
list
AWL Vocabulary in Context
Soon thereafter Desmond Morris, curator at the Zoological society of London, and R. F. Ewer of the University of Ghana independently concluded on behavioral and morphological grounds that the giant panda belonged in the raccoon family. That view was endorsed in 1986 by a team of Chinese scientists including several from the Beijing Zoo and Beijing University, who published a lengthy anatomical account of the panda.
Such problems reflect the difficulties encountered by scientists who must identify species and determine their relationships to other organisms.
Third StepExercises - Retrieving and
Generating
Vocab in textVocabulary
list
Exercises
Fourth StepConsolidation
Vocab in Text
Vocab list to
Master List
Vocabulary
list
Exercises
Self-Assessment
Vocab in Text
Vocab list to
Master List
Vocabulary
list
Exercises
ReviseMaster List
What Students Say…
This way shows us which words are
important to learn.
Like CNN says – lists make order out of chaos…
I can see how this can help me with texts in my subject.
This way reminds us which words we should know already…
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