I have created the following lesson for my CALL course.
Overview
The lesson plan below makes use of concordance lines from corpus websites such as Mark Davies' COCA. It is designed to provide students with a scaffolded use of concordance lines to learn new academic vocabulary words. The words have been chosen from a reading that students in a level 5 PIE course encounter in their reading texts.
I have chosen to use the corpus-based materials to provide learners with more exposure to learning vocabulary from context, which is one of the objectives of the course that I am teaching. I have chosen to use paper-based materials rather than have learners use online corpus research tools because I feel it is important to scaffold learners' use of concordance lines prior to having them use computer resources.
I also feel that these activities can help supplement the weak vocabulary coverage usually found in English reading textbooks. Providing learners with more exposure to how vocabulary is used in context through concordance lines can also help to show how words tend to be used with different collocates.
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