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Conference Presentations
Presentations relating to my research interests: corpus-based language analysis, corpus-driven text analysis and corpus-based language teaching.
2008
International Conference on Teaching and Learning with Technology (iCTLT) 2008
Suntec, Singapore. (5-6 December).
Viewing Language: Online Corpora and Language Awareness.
The presentation will demonstrate the potential of large online corpora for enhancing language awareness and explore their application to specific tasks and themes in the secondary curriculum.
Conference website
American Association of Corpus Linguistics (AACL) 2008
Brigham Young University, Utah. (13-15 March).
Annotating, Indexing and Querying a Multilingual, Multimodal Classroom Discourse Corpus.
CALICO 2008
San Francisco University, California. (17-18 March).
Pre-conference Workshop Automating Analysis of Learner Language
A Variety of `Errors’? Automated Analysis of Teacher and Pupil Talk in Singapore Classrooms. [ poster presentation here ]
The application of corpus methodology to the study of classroom discourse is a challenging new research area. The Singapore Corpus of Research in Education (SCoRE) comprises spoken pedagogic interactions in primary and secondary classrooms. SCORE is characterized by Singaporean pupils’ and teachers’ spoken language that, problematically, deviates from ‘standard’ English in existing annotation schemes. We present methods for increasing the accuracy of annotation for the Singapore variety of English. As a case study, we also present techniques for exploring how far novice and professional users’ repertoires of ready-made patterns, or ‘phrasicons’, can be said to significantly differ in this context.
2006
RELC 2006
Regional English Language Centre, Singapore. (11-13 April)
How effective is classroom concordancing? (with Ang Mei Ling)
Slides (pdf).
2005
Corpus Linguistics 2005
University of Birmingham, UK. (8-10 June)
Replication and Corpus Linguistics - Lexical Networks in Text.
Proceedings online here