Oral Presentation

EXPECTED OUTCOMES OF THE PROPOSAL
• Teachers can use concordances to find examples of authentic
usage to demonstrate features of vocabulary, typical collocations
and they can generate exercises based on examples drawn from a
variety of corpora.
• Students based on their own explorations can discover rules,
new meanings and draw inferences from lexical features by
searching for key words in context, turning themselves into
researchers.
• They can be more active, motivated and autonomous in their
vocabulary learning as they observe habitual collocations and
relate words to syntax.
• They can use the gathered authentic linguistic information for
error analysis or as an aid to improve their reading and writing
skills.
• It is hoped that educators who plan to run or are currently running
a similar technology mediated course can benefit from this
example of teaching.