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Using corpus analysis software to analyse specialized texts

Using corpus analysis software to analyse specialized texts

1.    What is a carpus?

In corpus linguistics, a corpus (sometimes used in the plural form "corpora can be generally defined as collection of naturally-occurring texts in a camputer-readable format which can be retrieved and analyzed using corpus analysis software'

2.    Sources of language corpora

-         http//corpus leeds.ac.uk/protectedlquery.html

-         http:/lextutor.ca/conc/eng/

-         http:l/www.arts.chula.ac.th/~ling ParaConc/index.html

-         http://www.athel.com/para html

3.    Designing a specialised corpus  

Corpus size

-         There are no fixed rules; depending on research purposes, availability of data and time.

-         Large, general corpora may be less useful than small, focused corpora if searches are made on context-specific terms.

-         There are limitations of too small corpora e.g. no enough hits to make decent generalization, not covering enough concepts, terms, or patterns under investigation.

-         Is preferable to create a "monitor' or 'open' corpus because specialized words/usage are dynamic.

Text extracts Vs. full text

-         Depends on the aim of corpus compilation.

-         Whole text offers more coverage because words or terms to be looked at may be randomly distributed throughout the text.

-         Specific sections may be helpful if we are looking for words or phrases under particular content areas or want to create purposeful sub-corpora.

My specialised corpus profile

Size	68,643 words
Source of corpus data	From the Internet (http://www.batworlds.com/) (https://batconservation.org/)
Number of texts	91 texts
Medium	Written
Subject	Bat
Text type	News articles
Authorship	Written by scientists
Language	Texts written in English by native speakers
Publication date	Recent texts (retrieved in September 2017)

Specialized Corpus Analysis

Topic: Bat

1.   Terminologies and collocation

turbine	virus	Habitat
turbine blade turbine orientation turbine nacelle	Ebola virus Rabies virus Khujand virus Aravan virus Bat virus	habitat degradation habitat destruction Swampy habitat habitat suitability

2.   Local grammar

2.1         Comparison of Adjectives

2.1.1Comparative Degree

“ Lesser false vampire bat smaller than their other vampire bat cousins, the lesser false vampire bats make their own homes in caves and hollowed out trees.

2.1.2Superlative Degree

“For their size, bats are the slowest reproducing mammals on Earth.

“ The tropics have the biggest variety of bat species: Indonesia has 175 species of bats (about ten times the number of species found in the UK). Central and South America are home to almost one third of the world's bats species.

2.2         “Species” is used the both singular and plural.

“ This bat is a member of the species Eptesicus

fuscus (Big brown bat), which are found in the U.S.

“ There are more than 950, and perhaps as many as 1,200 species of bats.

“ Lesser false vampire bat, this bat species is another tent-making bat. Though it is considered a species of "least concern" on the IUCN Red List, it is found in forests and is somewhat at risk due to habitat loss.

3.   Style

3.1         Present Simple Tense

“ Common vampire bats, Desmodus rotundus, are warm-weather microbats from South America that live and hunt in groups.

“ They are cave dwellers, and are persecuted due to an unfounded fear of rabies: They are not major carriers of the disease.

“  Bats are the only mammals capable of true flight.

“ Most bats eat flowers, small insects, fruits, nectar, pollen and leaves, though it depends on the type of bat.

3.2         Use of passive structure

“ This time of year, millions of bats from a spectrum of species are hunkered down in caves, where they’ll huddle together for warmth and hibernate through the winter.

“ This bat is a member of the species Eptesicus fuscus (Big brown bat), which are found in the U.S.

“ Many bat species around the world are threatened with extinction.

“ Bats are classified in the order Chiroptera, derived from the Greek words "cheir" for hand and "pteron," meaning wing.

4.   Content knowledge

4.1         use of acronyms

“ EPS = European Protected Species

“ BBC = British Broadcasting Corporation

“ IUCN = The International Union for Conservation of Nature

“  BCT =   Bat Conservation Trust

4.2         use of comma (,)

“  The Indiana Bat is a medium sized species. It can range in coloring from brown, black, or gray.

“  Colonies of the Indian Bat will meet up with each other for hibernation. There can be thousands and thousands of them in one location. Typically, hibernation takes place in the state of Indiana, which is where their name comes from.

“  Still other bat species feed on fish, frogs, lizards, small rodents, small birds, and even other bats. And while bats have an evil reputation for sucking blood.

4.3         use of Parentheses or Round Brackets

“  Bats range in size across the different species, but tend to average about 5.5 to 19 cm in length (tip to tail) with a wingspread of approximately 15 to 38 cm. Most weigh between 3.5 and 60 grams (in the U.S

“  The fossil record of bats prior to the Pleistocene Epoch (about 2,600,000 to 11,700 years ago) is limited and reveals little about bat evolution.

“  The order Chiroptera is readily divided into two suborders—Megachiroptera (large Old World fruit bats) and Microchiroptera (small bats).

Strategies for Using Multimedia

💠💠Strategies for Using Multimedia💠💠

Combining Modern Teaching Methods With Traditional Teaching Methods

& A multimedia program can provide immediate feedback on the correctness of the learner’s response.

& Teachers should combine their strong points with modern teaching methods, which not only raise classroom teaching quality and efficiency, but also improve teaching and learning environment between teacher and students.

Viewing Multimedia as the Assistance to Teaching

 & The option to provide guidance only when needed makes it possible for computers to support learning flexibly.

&  Multimedia enables students manipulate and create material to learn by doing. But when wr use computers in the teaching, we should understand they can only assist but cannot take place of all the other teaching methods.

Building the Idea Relationship Between Teachers and Students

& Teachers should play a leading role in the teaching.

& There is a movement towards learner-centered approaches Thus, students became learning subjects.

Strengthening Teacher Training

&  Multimedia assisted English teaching requires teachers with multimedia computer operating experience.

& The teachers should be trained with the use of modern equipment.

& They should be familiar with the operation.

&They should be expert in one thing and good at many.

& They should know well about modern educational theories and techniques.

The Principles of Multimedia-Assisted Teaching

(1)Scientific principles. Namely, courseware design cannot appear any errors;  

(2)Subsidiary principle. We must always adhere to: Although multi-media teaching has many advantages, it is only a supplementary means, and does not substitute for the role of people;

(3) Interactivity principle. More interactivity between teachers and students, students and multimedia, more effective results we will have;

(4) Combination principle. Combine the advantages of modern teaching and the traditional teaching organically.

The Multimedia Teaching

 💻💻The Multimedia Teaching💻💻

📣Advantages

Arousing the students’ interest

ëTeachers should try their students to become interest in one topic of knowledge point, and make the students this kind of media which can show with a strong passion and enthusiasm to participate in teaching.

ëMulti-media teaching can not stimulate students' interest in learning, but also make teaching becomes vivid and lively.

Improving students' self-learning ability

ëThe most important thing is teaching students how to learn and making students m "want me to study" to "I want to learn" in thinking, from passive learning to active learning.

 ëThe use of multimedia will be conducive to transition for students from the traditional passive learning to active state for independent study.

Improving students' innovative ability

ëThe teachers should pay attention to tap the imagination of students. To use multimedia achieve the desired results and find unlimited resources in textbooks.

Cultivating students’ communication skills.

ëMany students get a fixed, isolated knowledge points from textbooks, but the ability of using these knowledge points to the real life of capacity is relatively poor.

 ë We can create real-life scenes in the classroom. It is not only to shorten the distance between teaching and practice and give students the opportunity to use English to communicate, but also to satisfy their curiosity in psychology and stimulate the expression of desire.

 Increasing classroom capacity

ëTeachers can avoid using of multiple exchange of recorders, video recorders, overhead projectors, etc.

ë Multi-media teaching rhythm is adapted to the needs of modernization to meet the student’s desire for knowledge.

📣Problems

Confusion

ë Some teachers have directly brought a CD-ROM courseware for their lessons, or copy other people’s courseware overall.

ëIt would only demonstrate the result other people, and just completely ignore the "teaching-centered" teaching thinking, completely change into a multimedea-centered thinking.

 Performance on behalf of the lead

ëTeachers use the multimedia presentation to replace the guidance of teachers completely.

ë Some teachers show the teaching materials as many as possible in order to attract the students’interest and make the class vivid.

ëEnglish teachers may bear this proverb in their minds while preparing the lesson: more haste, less speed.

Lack of special skills

 ëSome teachers waste certain time in operation the computer, the unskilled operation on computer would affect the instruction flow, which in turn would de-motive students if it happened frequently in class.

Over-use of multimedia

ë The teacher’s lack of enthusiasm and creation and his or her dependence on the multimedia technology, the teachers act as sole information-giver to the students.

ë The students under such traditional teaching method are still passive and have no chance to have content thinking, critical thinking of the teachers’ lecture.

Lack of interaction between teacher and students

 ë The teacher in the multimedia classroom are busy with machine operation-computer, DVD player, overhead projector, courseware-which might even get the proficient teachers busy, let alone those unskilled.

ëThe tie the teachers and students becomes loose and it seems to them that teacher is only caring about the machine and they are also focusing affection on the screen.

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