3rd JALT Joint Tokyo Conference
Exploring and Evolving Classroom Environments
Sunday, 5th October 2008 (9:30 to 5:30)
Toyo Gakuen University, Hongo Campus
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Presenter:
Kevin Ryan, Tomio Uchida, Keiko Sakui, Neil Cowie, Rob Waring, Alastair Graham-Marr, and Alan Bossaer
Abstract:
"Exploring How to Use a Corpus in Oral Communication Courses"
Making the best use of relatively challenging but interesting ELT course books, how can we effectively teach oral communication courses? Utilizing applied corpus linguistics, I will present some innovative ideas we can apply to listening/conversation lessons and demonstrate the use of corpus-driven learning/teaching materials. Through illustrating the pedagogical applicability of corpus linguistics methodology in preparing and teaching oral communication courses, I wish to clarify some practical benefits of corpus linguistics.
About the Presenter:
Tomio Uchida has been teaching at high schools and universities for over 20 years, and is currently a lecturer at Meisei University in Tokyo. His current research interest is in applied corpus linguistics and he has recently been working on learner corpora and corpus-based dictionary projects.
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