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| JUNE 1999 EVENT IN KAGOSHIMA JALT |
- Using Concordances from Small Corpora: Video Transcripts and Newspapers
June 26, 1999 (Saturday), 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Bill Pellowe, Aso Foreign Language Travel College.
NOTE LOCATION:
Shigakukan Univ. Language Lab.
This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to CONC, a freeware concordancing
program for Macintosh. Practical applications of this software will concentrate on its ability to provide comprehensive,
interactive "indexes" of all the words in any particular text. Specifically, for teachers using videos,
the presenter will argue that this function is of great use in selecting and preparing lesson materials. Further
applications will be demonstrated using newspaper files to illustrate how concordancing software can help teachers
with courses focusing on writing, grammar/lexis, and English for Specific Purposes. Equipment permitting, each
participant will have plenty of opportunities to learn how to use CONC, and to use it on various texts provided
by the speaker. Because the user agreement of CONC allows it to be distributed freely, each participant can take
a copy of the software home.
Bill Pellowe has been teaching in Japan since 1990. He received his MA in TELF with distinction from the University
of Birmingham.
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