Activity 3
Understanding Writing and Oral Presentation English in Science and Engineering: A Scientific Analysis
Time: Thursday Nov. 1 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Place: Assembly Building I Room 101
Questions to consider:
1. What is AntConc or AntWordProfiler (or other software) you found on Prof. Anthony’s website?
2. How can we use them in our English teaching?
3. List two questions you want to ask Prof. Anthony.
1. As Laurence Anthony claims Antconc is a corpus analysis toolkit designed specifically for use in the classroom. It’s a freeware application including various functions for learners to improve their writing skills, such as concordance tool, WKFIC, tools for cluster and lexical bundle analysis and a word distribution plot.
2. In terms of budget, it’s a freeware application. Students, especially college students, could easily get the access to the software when they are writing their thesis as a reference. For teachers, teachers could show the software without budget issues in class to help student find some authentic resource about language use on their writing works.
In terms of teaching, I much appreciate the function of sorting of key word context. As a language learner, even for a teacher, it’s hard but essential to tell the frequency of each key word in the particular context. With the help of Antconc, teachers could more easily investigate what word is appropriate in the specific context.
3. Questions:
Would Antcons be beneficial for high school learners as well? How could we make sure they won’t face technical problems?
Would it be possible to create an informal and casual idioms concordance based on target context which is used in a casual conservation?
Time: Thursday Nov. 1 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Place: Assembly Building I Room 101
Questions to consider:
1. What is AntConc or AntWordProfiler (or other software) you found on Prof. Anthony’s website?
2. How can we use them in our English teaching?
3. List two questions you want to ask Prof. Anthony.
1. As Laurence Anthony claims Antconc is a corpus analysis toolkit designed specifically for use in the classroom. It’s a freeware application including various functions for learners to improve their writing skills, such as concordance tool, WKFIC, tools for cluster and lexical bundle analysis and a word distribution plot.
2. In terms of budget, it’s a freeware application. Students, especially college students, could easily get the access to the software when they are writing their thesis as a reference. For teachers, teachers could show the software without budget issues in class to help student find some authentic resource about language use on their writing works.
In terms of teaching, I much appreciate the function of sorting of key word context. As a language learner, even for a teacher, it’s hard but essential to tell the frequency of each key word in the particular context. With the help of Antconc, teachers could more easily investigate what word is appropriate in the specific context.
3. Questions:
Would Antcons be beneficial for high school learners as well? How could we make sure they won’t face technical problems?
Would it be possible to create an informal and casual idioms concordance based on target context which is used in a casual conservation?
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