| |  Welcome to the workshop on words lists and beyond, covering
- vocabulary profiling, based on the BNL
- tools and techniques from Tom Cobb's Compleat Lexical Tutor web site
- the CoBuild concordancer and collocation sampler
NOTE: This workshop uses some of the facilities of Tom Cobb's Compleat Lexical Tutor web site. Therefore, you should view this course in Windows Internet Explorer, version 5 or 6.
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| 1 |  What do you think about learning vocabulary?
- Let's start by comparing our ideas about some general concepts in learning vocabulary.
- Select whether you agree or disagree with the following eight statements taken from Folse, K. (2004). Vocabulary Myths: Applying Second Language
Research to Classroom Teaching. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
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| 2 |  How many words and how to use them
- How many words should our students know? Is there a list of words students should know as the first step to learning English? See what two experts, Paul Nation and Robert Waring, recommend by reading and completing the following extract from one of their papers.
  How many words...
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In terms of communicative competence, what role do vocabulary and grammar play? See what Henry Widdowson has to say on the subject by reconstructing fragments taken from an extract from his article.
- Competence in communicating with words
 Essential vocabulary and communicative competence
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Concordances and concordancing
- Once you have a good idea about the vocabulary profile of your corpus, you are in a good position to take advantage of other corpus-based tools like a concordancer and phrase extractor.
 What is a concordance?- Making your own concordance of a text
- Looking for recurring phrases
- Working with concordances
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| 5 | The 'real' world of English
There are many PC-based programs you can use to create, interrogate
and print or save concordances of your own collection of texts.
- There is also a range of freely available web-based tools you can use.
- In this part of the workshop we'll look at some online concordances of published corpora, in particular the British National Corpus and the Collins Cobuild Bank of English.
- Using web-based concordancers and collocation tables
- Published corpora of authentic English
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| 6 |  Putting theory into practice |
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| 7 |  Over to you...
- Now it's your turn!
- I've provided you with links to download some texts from the METU offline reading 1 series.
- Analyze them with the tools we've looked at and see if you can come up with some activities that you could use in class.
Good luck!
- See what you can do...
 Classroom activities
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Feedback
- Thanks for coming to the workshop! I hope it has been of some use. I'd appreciate any feedback you would like to give.
- To make it easy, I've created a simple feedback form in the link below.
- If you would like to give more detailed feedback, you can make a note in your MOODLE journal. Also, please feel free to send me an e-mail to steven.neufeld@gmail.com.
 Feedback My view on word lists, vocabulary profiling and concordancing
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