corpus and collocations
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Incorporation of Corpus and
Collocation in Language
Classrooms.
Professor: Milenia Reyes
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Corpus
Collocation
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Corpus
A collection of texts, written or spoken,
usually stored in a computer
database.
◦ Newspaper
◦ Books
◦ Magazines
◦ Phone calls
◦ Ordinary conversations
◦ TV shows
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Purpose
The most frequent words and phrases
in English.
Tense people use the most.
Differences in speaking and writing.
Contexts of use: Informal and
formal situations.
Different words native speakers use in
conversations.
Collocations
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How are you?
I’m fine, Thank you.
Good thanks
awesome Great
Not, bad Pretty good
I’m Ok I’m sad today
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Expressions
Really?
Well
I mean
You know
Uh-huh
Oh
Like
Anyway
You did?
I’m not sure
Stuff like that
And that sort of
stuff
You see
McCarthy, Michael. (Touchstone 2)
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How does it look like?
Jill: Where do want to go for dinner?
Jose: I don’t know. Why don’t we go to
the pizza place on the corner?
Jill: Pizza again! I don’t like their
pizza. It’s too spicy.
Jose: You are right. It’s spicier than
the pizza at Pizza House.
Jill: Well, I still want to go out tonight.
How about the new Japanese
restaurant downtown?
Jose: Ok! Lest go!
Stempleski, Susan (World Link, book 2)
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How does it look like?Eve: Ooh, it’s cold tonight.
Chris: Yeah, it is. But actually, I kind of
like cold weather.
Eve: You do? Really? …Boy, there
are a lot of people out here tonight.
Chris: Yeah, it gets pretty crowded on
weekends.
Eve: Do you come here a lot?
Chris: Yeah, I do, actually.
Eve: So are you a big hip-hop fan?
Chris: Yeah, I am. Are you?
Eve: Actually, no, but my brother’s in
the band tonight.
Chris: Oh, really? Cool.... By the
way, my name’s Chris.
Eve: Nice to meet you. I’m Eve.
McCarthy, Michael. (Touchstone 2)
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Corpus for ESP
It is probably one of the most obvious
and pointed applications of Corpus
Linguistics.
◦ Academic purposes
◦ Nurses and health care
◦ Air traffic controllers
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What is not a Corpus?
An archive is not a corpus.
A collection of citations is not a
corpus.
A text is not a corpus.
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Collocations
A collocation is a pair or group of
words that are often used together.
(Michael McCarthy)
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Learning Collocations
It is good to learn collocations
because they will help you to speak
and write English in a more natural
and accurate way.
It is accepted that choosing our words
carefully in certain situations is more
important than choosing grammatical
structures (Harmer 1991).
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Types of Collocation
Adjectives and Nouns
• Heavy rain
Verbs and Nouns
• Take a photo
Verbs and Prepositions
• Depend on
• Look at
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Have
A party
A problem
Anaccident
Difficulty
A dream
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Collocation Activities
Gap texts.
◦ I’m sure you’ll ________fun on the school
trip.
Sentences that include collocation
errors.
◦ I cannot do [make] up my mind.
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Collocation Activities
word combinations that collocate with
certain verbs.
do: the laundry, homework, the bed,
exercise.
A brainstorming activity.
Get
together
married
The phone
A cold
up
in
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Collocation Activities
Put expression in categories.
Evidence (2)
Jail
Police station
Court
Crime
Suicide
Alabi
Accident
Homicide
Drug
money
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What is the difference?
Make a mistake checkpoint a storm in a tea cup
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