{"id":56,"date":"2015-06-11T05:38:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T05:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelanceteacherselfdevelopment.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/11\/checking-vocab-kwic-ly\/"},"modified":"2015-06-11T05:38:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T05:38:00","slug":"checking-vocab-kwic-ly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/2015\/06\/11\/checking-vocab-kwic-ly\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking Vocab KWIC-ly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I had a lesson with my TOEIC class at one of the universities I teach at and we were having a vocabulary review. I decided to check knowledge of collocations by using some <a href=\"http:\/\/leoxicon.blogspot.jp\/2015\/05\/lexical-activities-combined.html?m=1\" target=\"blank\">collocation forks<\/a> and have my students check things out using <a href=\"http:\/\/corpus.byu.edu\/coca\/\" target=\"blank\">COCA<\/a>.<br \/>\nThat part of the lesson worked well; after getting the students used to productive use of the corpus and reducing the number of lines, all was good. Checking things like &#8216;take in&#8217; they found that it has mainly visual or cognitive stimuli that collocates.<br \/>\nIt might have looked like my students were having a faff about on their phones but if I don&#8217;t teach them how to use a corpus in lessons, they probably won&#8217;t be able to use it without guidance at home.<br \/>\nI have in the past used Twitter as a corpus with students but it doesn&#8217;t work very well to give concordances all the time.<br \/>\nIf you are interested in working with COCA, you should definitely give <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/muranava\" target=\"blank\">Mura Nava<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/eflnotes.wordpress.com\/category\/cup-of-coca\/\" target=\"blank\">Cup of COCA<\/a> posts out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I had a lesson with my TOEIC class at one of the universities I teach at and we were having a vocabulary review. I decided to check knowledge of collocations by using some collocation forks and have my students check things out using COCA. That part of the lesson worked well; after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,62,69,290],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa34By-U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}