tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53266181182571712452024-03-21T08:20:18.075-07:00Teaching and Learning ESL GrammarUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326618118257171245.post-7579265556049939432018-02-05T19:20:00.003-08:002019-02-18T08:22:57.763-08:00Helpful Grammar Resources<table border="1" style="height: 653px; width: 563px;"><thead>
<tr><th scope="col">Error Types</th><th scope="col">Resources</th></tr>
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<tr><th scope="row">Verb Tense </th>
<td><a href="https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/verb_tenses/index.html"> Verb Tenses</a><br />
<a href="https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/verb_tenses/verb_tense_consistency.html"> Verb Tense Consistency (Tense Shifts)</a></td>
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<tr><th scope="row">Verb Form<sup>1</sup></th>
<td><a href="https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/active_and_passive_voice/more_about_passive_voice.html"> Passive Voice</a> (<a href="https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/active_and_passive_voice/choosing_passive_voice.html">When to Use Passive Voice</a>)<br />
<a href="https://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/advanced-level-gerunds-and-infinitives"> Gerunds vs. Infinitives</a> (i.e.,<i> -ing</i> vs. <i>to- </i>)<br />
<a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/present-and-past-participles-explained-1211104"> Past vs. Present Participles</a> (i.e.,<i> -ing</i> vs.<i> -ed</i>)<br />
<a href="https://www.grammarly.com/blog/transitive-and-intransitive-verbs/"> Transitive vs intransitive verbs</a><br />
Reference tool: <a href="https://www.wordandphrase.info/frequencyList.asp">Word and Phrase Info</a></td>
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<tr><th scope="row">Subject-verb agreement</th>
<td><a href="https://webapps.towson.edu/ows/moduleSVAGR.htm"> Subject-verb agreement</a></td>
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<tr><th scope="row">Pronoun</th>
<td><a href="https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/pronouns/index.html"> Using Pronouns Clearly</a><br />
<a href="https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/relative_pronouns/index.html"> Using Relative Pronouns</a> (e.g., that, which)</td>
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<tr><th scope="row">Articles / determiners</th>
<td><a href="https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/using_articles.html"> Using articles (a/an/the)</a><br />
<a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/quantifiers/little-a-little-few-a-few"> Using quantifiers (e.g., little, a little, few, a few)</a><br />
<a href="http://bethune.yorku.ca/writing/possession/"> Using possessives</a></td>
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<tr><th scope="row">Noun endings</th>
<td><a href="https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/count_and_noncount_nouns/count_noncount_nouns_with_articles_adjectives.html"> Count vs. Non-count Nouns</a></td>
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<tr><th scope="row">Word choice / Informal language<sup>2</sup></th>
<td>Reference tools: <a href="https://www.wordandphrase.info/frequencyList.asp">Word and Phrase Info</a>, <a href="https://corpus.byu.edu/coca/">COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English)</a>, <a href="http://ozdic.com/">Ozdic</a>, <a href="http://skell.sketchengine.co.uk/run.cgi/skell">Sketch Engine</a></td>
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<tr><th scope="row">Sentence structure</th>
<td><a href="https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/independent_and_dependent_clauses/index.html"> Independent vs Dependent Clauses</a><br />
<a href="https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/mechanics/sentence_fragments.html"> Sentence Fragments</a><br />
<a href="https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/independent_and_dependent_clauses/runonsentences.html"> Run-on sentences, Comma Splices & Fused Sentences</a><br />
<a href="https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/mechanics/dangling_modifiers_and_how_to_correct_them.html"> Dangling modifiers</a></td>
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<tr><th scope="row">Punctuation</th>
<td><a href="https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/punctuation/index.html"> Punctuation Overview</a> (e.g., comma usage, apostrophe, hyphens)</td>
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<tr><th scope="row">Word form<sup>3</sup></th>
<td>Reference tools: <a href="https://www.wordandphrase.info/frequencyList.asp">Word and Phrase Info</a>, <a href="https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/analyse">Oxford Learner's Dictionaries</a></td>
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<b>1.</b> "Verb Form" refers to issues in formation of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">the verb phrase</span></i><i><span style="line-height: 150%;"> except for </span></i><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">tense markings</span></i><i><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><b>1, 2, 3.</b> Click <a href="https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_miqd45km">here</a> to learn about different reference tools you can use!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326618118257171245.post-8542990099361255482017-04-01T19:19:00.000-07:002017-10-09T14:41:31.900-07:00Teaching How to Use Technology to Self-correct Word Choices in ESL Writing<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Step 1</span>: DIAGNOSIS - Understanding Word Choice Problems</b></span><br />
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<li><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/wgw9j3s2nj38k2f/Word%20Choice%20Diagnostic%20Test%20%28student%29.docx?dl=0">Word Choice Diagnostic Test (Student)</a> - See Part 1</li>
<li><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/vgoo1c87m2fulrn/Word%20Choice%20Diagnostic%20Test%20%28Key%29.docx?dl=0">Word Choice Diagnostic Test (Answer Key)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sul2lbbtsemprn/Word%20Choice%20Diagnostic%20Test%20Spec.docx?dl=0">How to Create Word Choice Diagnostic Quiz (Test Spec)</a></li>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Step 2</span>: TRAINING - Learning Word Choice Reference Tools </b></span><br />
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<li><a href="https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=1FCA73C1C11D6542%212004&authkey=%21AKGSFN-JXYCY9xw&ithint=onenote%2c">Word Choice Reference Tools Guidebook</a></li>
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<b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Step 3</span>: <span style="color: #073763;">APPLICATION 1 - Guided Self-Correction Homework </span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>1. Teacher Guide </b>(Could be given right after <i>or</i> before Step 2)<b>:</b></span><br />
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<li><b><span style="color: #073763;">Student's Writing (Highlighted in a Draft)</span></b>:"...Other people think that grade inflation is natural because <b>opportunity for students such as job is depended mainly <span style="color: red;">by</span> grade</b>." </li>
<li><b><span style="color: #073763;">Problem</span></b>: You have a word (preposition) choice problem here </li>
<li><b><span style="color: #073763;">Search Strategy</span></b>: Type in “<span style="color: black;"><b>job opportunity depended mainly *</b></span>” in Google or <a href="http://corpus.byu.edu/coca">COCA</a> and check which preposition is the most common in the results.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>2. Student Response</b><b>:</b></span> "I looked at the sentences that appeared on the first page of search result (see the screenshot below) and discover that <i>on</i> or <i>upon</i> is always used in this context. I also realized that <i>is depended </i>should be <i>depends </i>and <i>mainly</i> comes after <i>depend</i>"<br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>3. Teacher Feedback: </b><span style="color: black;">"Yes,</span><b> </b></span><span style="color: black;">you also might have discovered from this page that job opportunity is typically used as a plural form." </span><br />
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5wtdeRpLbeFeV82V0FmRkh5SUU/view?usp=sharing">Application Homework Instruction Sample (See Part 4, Step 1)</a><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Step 4</span>: <span style="color: #073763;">APPLICATION 2 - Independent Self-correction Homework</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #274e13;">1. Student's Homework</span></b><br />
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<li><span style="color: #073763;"><b>Student's Writing </b></span><b><span style="color: #073763;">(Highlighted in a Draft)</span></b>: "....For example, when I <b>applying a job</b>, as an entry level, I am nobody, the recruiters always filter by GPA."</li>
<li><span style="color: #073763;"><b>Problem:</b></span> A preposition is missing here.</li>
<li><span style="color: #073763;"><b>Revision:</b> </span>applying a job -> applying <span style="color: red;">for</span> a job</li>
<li><span style="color: #073763;"><b>Search Process:</b></span> I searched “apply” and “job” as collocates on COCA since I was not sure if I need preposition after apply. After viewing the result below, I decided to put “for” after “apply”.</li>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>2. Teacher Feedback: </b></span><span style="color: black;">Great job. You also have the same error in the following sentence: "<b>GPA is as important as well for <span style="color: red;">applying school</span></b>." You can use the same preposition here (i.e. applying for school).</span></div>
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5wtdeRpLbeFeV82V0FmRkh5SUU/view?usp=sharing">Application Homework Instruction Sample (See Part 4, Step 2)</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326618118257171245.post-4737371197440595432016-01-27T16:04:00.002-08:002020-02-11T09:33:09.705-08:00How to Make Your Feedback Stick<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQPAiRxkRuwluOIyDm4BU8t4w2m7XTssUdVApVxXdEL0kIFBrj2c8HnsDhNvkgkSDH5mDrFXLQhO9SWDKkogI-GCs74KsuK1NLorbqQ-O5fOcEoVFUO-ztubN4psPyuQ5uHrDPvcvSFjo/s1600/51fhNaNM87L._SL300_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQPAiRxkRuwluOIyDm4BU8t4w2m7XTssUdVApVxXdEL0kIFBrj2c8HnsDhNvkgkSDH5mDrFXLQhO9SWDKkogI-GCs74KsuK1NLorbqQ-O5fOcEoVFUO-ztubN4psPyuQ5uHrDPvcvSFjo/s200/51fhNaNM87L._SL300_.jpg" width="200" /></a>Here are some suggestions for how to make your grammar feedback most effective (i.e., leading to successful learner uptake and long-term learning effect) by taking a more systematic approach in your corrective feedback:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>1. Show Them a Big Picture</b></span></h4>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Teachers as well as the students often get hung up on <i>individual</i> cases or errors that we see in <i>individual</i> papers and lose sight of the "big picture" (the system or the pattern that manifest itself in those errors). You can help yourself and your students see this big picture by administering a grammar diagnostic test and/or assigning a reflection that encourages Ss to look back and discover their grammar error patterns. <b><br /></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>A. Diagnosing Grammar Issues </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The first and most important step is to ensure that your students <i>understand </i>your
feedback as well as your approach towards giving feedback (e.g., why
are you giving them feedback? what do all the grammar terms mean? what
kinds of errors do you consider more/less important and why?). They also need to be aware <span style="font-family: inherit;">of what types of errors they <span style="font-family: inherit;">make most often.</span></span> Try the following steps: </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Try administering "<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/vskrg1ujnw9rwvp/Grammar%20Diagnostic%20Quiz.docx?dl=0">Grammar Diagnostic Test</a>" to test how much explicit/implicit knowledge students have about <span style="font-family: inherit;">common<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">ESL grammar errors</span></span></span>. After you collect the test result, it's also helpful to have an in-class discussion about grammar issues. In the discussion, <span style="font-family: inherit;">y</span>ou may...</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Check students' understanding of “<a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2013/03/common-esl-grammar-errors-and-feedback.html">Common ESL Grammar Errors</a>” (define any difficult terms for them by using </span><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ixxm70ylbebyise/Grammar%20Term%20Glossary.docx?dl=0">Grammar Term Glossary</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Explain your grammar feedback policy. For example, explain types of errors you will address in your feedback, frequency/types of grammar feedback your students can expect on their drafts, and follow-up activities they are expected to do based on your feedback.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Provide helpful grammar resources students can use to work on particular grammar issues they have on your course website (or direct them to any grammar workshops/classes available on campus). </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Read your students' essays <span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">(final or semi-final)</span><span style="background: white; color: black;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">to identify their (performance) errors and share your
“diagnosis” with them by pointing out a couple major issues to work on in a grading rubric. Alternatively, you may use this <a href="https://uofi.box.com/s/0jytuhw7w6afn8mrw3j8kohsocejcb5j">Grammar Diagnostic Chart</a> (<a href="https://uofi.box.com/s/s6ify4fvsie9t4ywh0ogkw6xitww16mc">Sample</a>) <i>and</i> by commenting on their drafts directly (pick 1-2 example errors).</span></span></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">B. Reflection on Grammar Issues</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">After you have given grammar feedback on a couple papers, ask your students to look back at the comments you gave them regarding grammar issues and notice any pattern or reoccurring issues. Based on their responses, direct them to</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> "<a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2018/02/helpful-grammar-resources-rev-2018.html">Helpful Grammar Resources</a>". </span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>2. Checking Students' Editing Work</b> </span></span></h4>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Another crucial step is following up on their revision/editing work after you have given them feedback to hold them accountable and make sure your feedback actually works! </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You should <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>always</u></i> require them to edit their work
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Identify which types of errors the students could or could not self-correct successfully. You may give this feedback in <span style="font-family: inherit;">writing</span> or face-to-face through individual conferences. You may also have students peer review each other’s grammar correction. Be sure to address the following points in your feedback (or in peer feedback): </span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Did each correction contribute to the improvement of the writing? If the answer is “no”, briefly explain why the correction was not good and what <span style="font-family: inherit;">could</span> be a better correction.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Are there any important grammar error(s) that the student could not correct? If so, highlight the errors and give more detailed or direct correction </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">(hint: according to research, students have trouble correcting "sentence structure" and "word choice" errors). </span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>3. Providing Resources for Further Study/Long-term Success</b></span></span></h4>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It is also a good idea to give resources for further study when/after you give them corrective feedback in their drafts, especially if you notice any reoccurring issues in multiple drafts from the same student. You may use some materials from "<a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2018/02/helpful-grammar-resources-rev-2018.html">Helpful Grammar Resources</a>" post. <b><br /></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326618118257171245.post-43774345144706045312015-09-04T13:56:00.001-07:002015-09-04T13:56:27.107-07:00Poster<iframe width="800" height="1534" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="overflow-y:hidden;" src="https://magic.piktochart.com/embed/7535560-acs-workshop-poster-draft"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326618118257171245.post-43963294794320268672015-07-03T08:12:00.000-07:002015-09-24T12:26:58.106-07:00Spring 2015 UIUC ESL Grammar Workshop Series<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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All international students at UIUC are now invited to attend <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Spring 2015 UIUC ESL Grammar Workshop Series</span></b> hosted by students in <a href="https://my.illinois.edu/uPortal/render.userLayoutRootNode.uP?uP_sparam=activeTabTag&activeTabTag=Academics&uP_fname=illinois-ssdt-courseinformationsuite&pltp_action=classView&pltp_year=2013&pltp_term=fall&pltp_course=EIL&pltp_classNumber=422">EIL 422 English Grammar for ESL Teachers</a> and <a href="http://www.linguistics.illinois.edu/students/esl/">UIUC ESL Services Program</a>.<br />
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<li><b>Cost: </b>ALL sessions are FREE for all international students at UIUC </li>
<li><b>Location</b>: <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">All sessions (except for <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Tense and Aspect Session 2 and Preposition Session 2) will be held at</span> </span>Foreign Languages Building, G17</span> <span style="color: black;">(a computer lab in the basement)</span> </span> </li>
<li><b>Topics: </b>The following topics are the most difficult areas for ESL students and thus will be covered in the workshop series (click each link below to find out more information about each workshop): </li>
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<li><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2014/10/sentence-and-phrase-structure.html">Sentence structure</a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2015/02/verb-usage.html">Verb usage<span style="color: black;"> </span></a></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2014/10/tense-and-aspect.html">Tense and aspect</a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2014/10/articles.html">Articles</a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2014/10/prepositions-and-phrasal-verbs.html">Prepositions and phrasal verbs</a></span></li>
</ul>
<li><b>Dates and Sign-up</b>: Please sign up for the topic(s) you're interested in learning by clicking the registration link(s) below. There are only 15 seats per session, so hurry up (see the sign-up deadlines below)! You will need to log in with your NetID and password. <u>The two sessions on the same topic may contain the same contents, so do NOT sign up for two sessions on the same topic</u>. </li>
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<li><b>Sentence structure</b> (Sign-up deadline: March 9)</li>
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<li>Session 1: <a href="https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/1935373">March 16, 5-6:50 PM, FLB G17</a> </li>
<li>Session 2: <a href="https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/5728136">March 18, 4-5:50 PM, FLB G17</a></li>
</ul>
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<li><b>Verb usage</b> (Sign-up deadline: March 24)</li>
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<li>Session 1: <a href="https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/5587263">March 31, 5-6:50 PM, FLB G17</a></li>
<li>Session 2: <a href="https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/9030314">April 1, 6-7:50 PM, FLB G17</a></li>
<li>Session 3: <a href="https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/3275506">Arpil 2, 6-7:50 PM, FLB G17</a> </li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><b>Tense and aspect</b> (Sign-up deadline: March 30)</li>
</ul>
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<li>Session 1: <a href="https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/3915690">April 6, 6-7:50 PM, FLB G17</a> </li>
<li>Session 2: <a href="https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/814678">April 7, 7-8:50 PM, English Building 304</a></li>
<li>Session 3: <a href="https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/9549289">April 8, 5-6:50 PM, FLB<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span>G17</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><b>Articles</b> (Sign-up deadline: April 8) </li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-left: 40px;">
<li>Session 1: <a href="https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/4067882">April 15, 5-6:50 PM, FLB G17</a></li>
<li>Session 2: <a href="https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/1342137">April 16, 5-6:50 PM, FLB G17</a></li>
</ul>
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<li><b>Prepositions and phrasal verbs </b>(Sign-up deadline: April 14)</li>
</ul>
<ul><ul>
<li>Session 1: <a href="https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/3344130">April 21, 6-7:50 PM, FLB G17</a></li>
<li>Session 2: <a href="https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/5717703">April 22, 7-8:50 PM, English Building 304</a></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<b>6. Method/Procedure</b>: Each session will be two hours. The first hour of each session will be a lecture/whole-class discussion and the second hour will be a hands-on practice in smaller groups. There will be three instructors for each session, so you will have opportunities to ask for one-on-one help during small group activities.<br />
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<b>7. Contact Information: </b>Please contact Anita Greenfield, UIUC ESL Writing Program Research Assistant, at <a href="mailto:eslwriting@mx.uillinois.edu">eslwriting@mx.uillinois.edu</a> for more questions on registration or contact Jin Kim, UIUC ESL Writing Program Curriculum Coordinator, at <a href="mailto:jinkim7@illinois.edu">jinkim7@illinois.edu</a> if you are interested in advertising this opportunity as an instructor or a private tutor working for international students at UIUC. <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326618118257171245.post-80495856961136608062015-02-09T11:47:00.003-08:002015-02-09T14:22:49.420-08:00Verb Usage<b>Purpose/Tentative Topics: </b>This workshop is for you if you have trouble with...<br />
<ul>
<li>Recognizing and using transitive, intransitive, and ditransitive verbs </li>
<li>Using an appropriate verb phrase structure by recognizing that different
kinds of verbs are followed by different kinds of phrases (e.g.
noun phrases, but also infinitives, gerunds, prepositional phrases, or clauses)</li>
</ul>
Note: The list above is "tentative" and is subject to change based on the needs analysis of the students who sign up. Don't worry if you don't understand all the grammatical terms above. You do not need to know all the terms to be able to follow the workshop because they will explained during the workshop. Please also note that the focus of the workshop is to help you get better at "using" English grammar rather than acquiring the knowledge of English grammar.<br />
<br />
<b>Sign-up: </b>Sign-up links for all sessions are available <a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2014/10/uiuc-esl-grammar-workshop.html">here</a>.<br />
<br />
<b>Method/Procedure: </b>Each session will be two hours. The first hour of each session will be a lecture/discussion and the second hour will be a hands-on practice in smaller groups. There will be three instructors for each session, so you will have opportunities to ask for one-on-one help during small group activities.<br />
<br />
<b>Supplementary Materials: </b>Any materials provided during the workshop that you may use for further study will be uploaded here after each session. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326618118257171245.post-28893811019329390012014-10-08T19:58:00.002-07:002014-10-08T19:58:18.586-07:00How to Share a Writer's Help Resource Page or Quiz<strong><span style="color: #073763;">1. Sharing a Writer's Help Resource Page:</span></strong><br />
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<li><strong>Step 1</strong>: Click "Share a Link" from the menu on the right hand side of the page.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<strong>Step 2</strong>: When the pop-up window opens, type in your email address (do NOT copy/paste the URL since it doesn't always work) </div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XYy_imZerHo/VDX4I_AxZJI/AAAAAAAAB3g/LHpSKIHSeho/s1600/Share%2Ba%2BLink%2B2.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XYy_imZerHo/VDX4I_AxZJI/AAAAAAAAB3g/LHpSKIHSeho/s1600/Share%2Ba%2BLink%2B2.PNG" height="254" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><strong>2. Sharing Writer's Help Exercise</strong> <strong>Page:</strong></span><br />
<ul>
<li><strong>Step 1: </strong>Click "Share a Link" from the menu at the top of the pop-up window (the exercise page).</li>
</ul>
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<li><strong>Step 2</strong>: When the pop-up window opens, type in your email address (do NOT copy/paste the URL since it doesn't always work) </li>
</ul>
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XYy_imZerHo/VDX4I_AxZJI/AAAAAAAAB3g/LHpSKIHSeho/s1600/Share%2Ba%2BLink%2B2.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XYy_imZerHo/VDX4I_AxZJI/AAAAAAAAB3g/LHpSKIHSeho/s1600/Share%2Ba%2BLink%2B2.PNG" height="254" width="320" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326618118257171245.post-73808972629190256842014-10-07T18:47:00.004-07:002015-02-09T11:50:03.310-08:00Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs<b>Purpose/Tentative Topics: </b>This workshop is for you if you have trouble with...<br />
<ul>
<li>Recognizing words that function as prepositions (as part of phrasal verbs or noun phrases)</li>
<li>Recognizing grammatical structure of prepositional phrases and/or phrasal verbs</li>
<li>Knowing how (or what kinds of) prepositions are used within/before certain noun phrases</li>
<li>Knowing how (or what kinds of) prepositions are used after certain verbs or within certain phrasal verbs</li>
</ul>
<u>Note</u>: The list above is "tentative" and is subject to change based on the needs analysis of the students who sign up. Don't worry if you don't understand all the grammatical terms above. You do not need to know all the terms to be able to follow the workshop because they will explained during the workshop. Please also note that the focus of the workshop is to help you get better at "using" English grammar rather than acquiring the knowledge of English grammar itself.<br />
<b></b><br />
<b>Sign-up</b>: Sign-up links for all sessions are available <a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2014/10/uiuc-esl-grammar-workshop.html">here</a>.<br />
<br />
<b>Method/Procedure</b>: The first hour of each session will be a lecture/discussion and the second hour will be a hands-on practice in smaller groups. There will be three instructors for each session, so you will have opportunities to ask for one-on-one help during small group activities. <br />
<br />
<b>Supplementary Materials</b>: Any materials provided during the workshop that you may use for further study will be uploaded here AFTER each session.<br />
<br />
<b>Contact</b>: Please contact <a href="mailto:eslwriting@mx.uillinois.edu"><span style="color: #2649b6;">eslwriting@mx.uillinois.edu</span></a> for more questions. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326618118257171245.post-17229246882115237012014-10-07T18:42:00.001-07:002015-02-27T11:18:32.029-08:00Articles<b>Purpose: </b>This workshop is for you if you have trouble with...<br />
<ul>
<li>Using the right kind of definite or indefinite articles in the given context</li>
<ul>
</ul>
<li>Knowing what kinds of items (nouns) need definite articles (the) vs indefinite articles (a, an) in which context</li>
<ul>
</ul>
<li>Knowing what kinds of items (nouns) are considered (not) countable and thus (not) require indefinite articles (a, an)</li>
<ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<div>
<u>Note</u>: The list above is "tentative" and is subject to change based on the needs analysis of the students who sign up. Don't worry if you don't understand all the grammatical terms above. You do not need to know all the terms to be able to follow the workshop because they will explained during the workshop. Please also note that the focus of the workshop is to help you get better at "using" English grammar rather than acquiring the knowledge of English grammar.<br />
<b></b><br />
<b>Sign-up</b>: Sign-up links for all sessions are available <a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2014/10/uiuc-esl-grammar-workshop.html">here</a>.</div>
<br />
<b>Method/Procedure</b>: The first hour of each session will be a lecture/discussion and the second hour will be a hands-on practice in smaller groups. There will be three instructors for each session, so you will have opportunities to ask for one-on-one help during small group activities. <br />
<br />
<b>Supplementary Materials</b>: Any materials provided during the workshop that you may use for further study will be uploaded here AFTER each session.<br />
<br />
<b>Contact</b>: Please contact <a href="mailto:eslwriting@mx.uillinois.edu"><span style="color: #2649b6;">eslwriting@mx.uillinois.edu</span></a> for more questions. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326618118257171245.post-14207134284689353622014-10-07T18:34:00.002-07:002015-02-09T11:49:06.788-08:00Tense and Aspect<b>Purpose/Tentative Topics: </b>This workshop is for you if you have trouble with...<br />
<ul>
<li>Knowing when to use which tense and aspect (considering the context of your writing) in English</li>
<li>Using the correct markers for certain tense and aspect in English</li>
<li>Using the correct past or past participle forms of English verbs (esp. irregular verbs) </li>
<li>Keeping your tense consistent by avoiding abrupt shift within a paragraph</li>
</ul>
<div>
<u>Note</u>: The list above is "tentative" and is subject to change based on the needs analysis of the students who sign up. Don't worry if you don't understand all the grammatical terms above. You do not need to know all the terms to be able to follow the workshop because they will explained during the workshop. Please also note that the focus of the workshop is to help you get better at "using" English grammar rather than acquiring the knowledge of English grammar.<br />
<br />
<b>Sign-up</b>: Sign-up links for all sessions are available <a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2014/10/uiuc-esl-grammar-workshop.html">here</a>.<br />
</div>
<b>Method/Procedure</b>: Each session will be two hours. The first hour of each session will be a lecture/discussion and the second hour will be a hands-on practice in smaller groups. There will be three instructors for each session, so you will have opportunities to ask for one-on-one help during small group activities. <br />
<br />
<b>Supplementary Materials</b>: Any materials provided during the workshop that you may use for further study will be uploaded here after each session.<br />
<br />
<b>Contact</b>: Please contact <a href="mailto:eslwriting@mx.uillinois.edu"><span style="color: #2649b6;">eslwriting@mx.uillinois.edu</span></a> for more questions. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326618118257171245.post-74494333931363049392014-10-07T18:21:00.002-07:002015-02-27T11:10:54.833-08:00Sentence Structure<b>Purpose/Tentative Topics: </b>This workshop is for you if you have trouble with...<br />
<ul>
<li>Placing and ordering important elements of English sentences (e.g. nouns, verbs and adverbials) appropriately without omitting, misusing, or misplacing them in a sentence</li>
<li>Making complex or compound sentences whose parts fit together properly </li>
</ul>
<div>
<u>Note</u>: The list above is "tentative" and is subject to change based on the needs analysis of the students who sign up. Don't worry if you don't understand all the grammatical terms above. You do not need to know all the terms to be able to follow the workshop because they will explained during the workshop. Please also note that the focus of the workshop is to help you get better at "using" English grammar rather than acquiring the knowledge of English grammar.<br />
<br />
<b>Sign-up</b>: Sign-up links for all sessions are available <a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2014/10/uiuc-esl-grammar-workshop.html">here</a>.</div>
<ul></ul>
<b>Method/Procedure</b>: Each session will be two hours. The first hour of each session will be a lecture/discussion and the second hour will be a hands-on practice in smaller groups. There will be three instructors for each session, so you will have opportunities to ask for one-on-one help during small group activities. <br />
<br />
<b>Supplementary Materials</b>: Any materials provided during the workshop that you may use for further study will be uploaded here after each session.<br />
<br />
<b>Contact</b>: Please contact <a href="mailto:eslwriting@mx.uillinois.edu"><span style="color: #2649b6;">eslwriting@mx.uillinois.edu</span></a> for more questions.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326618118257171245.post-45617283711369068982014-10-01T20:53:00.000-07:002015-03-08T22:55:15.058-07:00EIL 422 Teaching Practicum Training<b>Part 1</b>: <b>Understanding UIUC ESL Undergraduate Students</b><br />
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<b>Part 2</b>: <b>Analyzing Common Error Types</b><br />
<b>- Lecture </b>(<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1m_sUojL38SJTCMb3ovjadhNqf9rW5MHKLIkPxOCb1J0&authuser=0">PPT</a>; <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cNMxxQFiCEZjuJGvWdyiENA6pEk-6vgXhOQjMX9e37c/edit?usp=sharing">handout</a>)<br />
<b>- Group Work</b><br />
<ul>
<li><b>Verb Usage</b> (<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/17T0VEYiHwRJDfdWZ1n05qug6mZXGv-cIqM-pcyqP8g4/edit?usp=sharing">Group 1</a>; <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1osKj7t4jOBEvJo8WbfEjw0WbGnK3z6xbW5MkuTrXJqA/edit?usp=sharing">Group 2</a>; <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YJZ0VeXYytO5Phhp--u40lvT2W_N71mHImCvLjvfoMg/edit?usp=sharing">Group 3</a>; <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aLYTrVfJ05_Uk5qLpmqfpU6_4nK0Jw2IvKBONrWQE8A/edit?usp=sharing">Answer Key</a>)</li>
<li><b>Tense and Aspect</b> (<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qTNhF7tw5qfNNnKNyiHhS7j4liyczjsl188w4AE5FlE/edit?usp=sharing">Group 1</a>; <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k0qvR6xCOU1BJ-nyl9e_en36p6pibjOT_q5DzkCcIxs/edit?usp=sharing">Group 2</a>; <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qefxPES9sFgvkUnoCmWMvoY58QfQg7qLpE4fsyhcEaE/edit?usp=sharing">Group 3</a>; <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rvypFIZjIs5_r-2YjvjhaQt9hP-FujMjBklxZDN09m0/edit?usp=sharing">Answer Key</a>)</li>
<li><b>Articles</b> (<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/15BFjeCB7DaNp8N7t85zfvUUOxZWR1S9OOv8WZ0DKe74/edit?usp=sharing">Group 1</a>; <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hf0NRIYnODFwN7GwhGsBvqPACU-1J_wnBEjKMdmn59M/edit?usp=sharing">Group 2</a>; <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WivA0x1On0bRZhjohBLoDO5Yd8462vGpMty5XUTS0So/edit?usp=sharing">Answer Key</a>)</li>
<li><b>Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs</b> (<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1du-CTM1VJjZ0ef6ElaMgCvS8ArgCeV93CZGYKCtPSxw/edit?usp=sharing">Group 1</a>; <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EqzTKLJDihaBmJmxwOM6XvzE_IYJbCwhkbupJfj2Hnc/edit?usp=sharing">Group 2</a>; <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lxM3jKj41xWNcq55VM_5C9cZoq4miskwm0xco0p3cGY/edit?usp=sharing">Answer Key</a>)</li>
</ul>
<b>Part 3</b>: <b>Writer's Help Training</b><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2013/03/grammar-resources.html">Writer's Help Grammar Resources</a> (with other supplementary materials) </li>
<li><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/WH_InstructorGuide_v2.pdf">Writer's Help Instructor Guide</a> (Just read Part 1 and 3)</li>
</ul>
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<b>Helpful Links:</b><br />
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<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/UIUCESL">UIUC ESL Writing Program Facebook Group</a></li>
<li><a href="https://uofi.box.com/s/5m0jft8zjrnyltz7qwqg">UIUC Undergraduate ESL Student Essays</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5wtdeRpLbeFVzVleE94bGlkNGM/edit?usp=sharing">Learner English</a> - Focus on reading Chinese students' typical grammar issues (pp.317-323) or those of Korean students (pp.332-338)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.linguistics.illinois.edu/students/esl/Grammar.html">Spring 2015 ESL Grammar Workshop Series Sign-up Post for Students</a> </li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326618118257171245.post-2582568813451317312014-08-01T16:16:00.000-07:002017-01-20T09:13:17.258-08:00Grammar Workshop Lesson Plan <div>
<span style="color: blue;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Part I: Grammar Diagnostic Test [Before Grammar Workshop Day]</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Objectives</b>: Students will be able to...</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span></div>
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<li style="border: currentColor; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recognize how much explicit and implicit knowledge they have about common types of grammar errors (and help the teachers know how to give feedback for them).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></li>
<li style="border: currentColor; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recognize frequent types of errors they make in their essays so they can make an effective study plan.</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Give students "</span><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/Grammar%20Diagnostic%20Quiz.docx">Grammar Diagnostic Test</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" to submit in a hard copy. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Score the test using the <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/Grammar%20Diagnostic%20Quiz%20%28Key%29.docx">answer key</a>. The result (<a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/Grammar%20Quiz%20Result%20Sample1.jpeg">sample p.1</a>, <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/Grammar%20Quiz%20Result%20Sample2.jpeg">2</a>) from this test will tell you how much explicit/implicit knowledge each student has about common types of grammar errors. Alternatively, you may have them score their own test result and record the result via Google Form (<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1i5xWhvqusg9WrO1zPMHqX73DuA5o8DW-htdF4MLw-Ck/viewform">sample</a>) so you can collect it easily (and your students can compare their own result to others by <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qNqZlJFqPg-7oKTB-3jWVF4XuVLSVotCeRvyNepHDqA&authuser=0">reviewing the statistics</a>) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Read your students’ essays (final or semi-final drafts) to identify their "performance" errors. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Find the most prevalent types
of errors (1~3 types) in their essays by referring to “<a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2013/03/common-esl-grammar-errors-and-feedback.html">Common ESL Grammar Errors</a>” chart (also provided in the </span></span><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/Grammar%20Diagnostic%20Quiz.docx">Grammar Diagnostic Test</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Write down
the names of the types either on their diagnostic test sheet or their
essay drafts.</span> Then, you may do one of the following depending on the level of your students:</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></li>
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<li style="border: currentColor; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Option 1 (For advanced students)</b>: Do not point out where the grammar errors are. Simply write down the types of errors for students to identify and correct. See <a href="https://www.blogger.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span id="goog_1848179097"></span></a></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/">here</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for an example. Depending on the level of your class, you may ignore this option since it could be too indirect. </span></li>
<li style="border: currentColor; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Option 2 (For high-intermediate students)</b>: In addition to option 1, highlight words, phrases, or sentences that have errors. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See </span><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/feedback%20sample%202.docx">here</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for an example.</span></li>
<li style="border: currentColor; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Option 3 (For low or low-intermediate students</b>): In addition to option 2, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">highlight words, phrases, or sentences that have errors and provide clues for how to fix them</span>. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See </span><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/feedback%20sample%203.docx">here</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for an example.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><i><u>Note</u>: You may have difficulty determining the level of the students. Based on my personal experience, students who have more than 3-4 types of errors (especially sentence structure errors, type #9-11, 13) all throughout their essays are low level, those who have about 3-4 types of errors in some parts of their essays are intermediate, and those who have less than 3 that are mostly word choice or sentence structure errors are advanced.</i> </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Part II: In-class Grammar Workshop [40 min]</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Objectives</b>: Students will be able to...</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span></div>
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<li style="border: currentColor; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Understand the importance of correcting their own grammar errors.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></li>
<li style="border: currentColor; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recognize which types of grammar errors can be particularly problematic in writing.</span></li>
<li style="border: currentColor; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Locate resources they can use to improve their grammar. </span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">1. Go over "Grammar Knowledge Questionnaire" part of the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/Grammar%20Diagnostic%20Quiz.docx">Grammar Diagnostic Test</a> with your students. You may also discuss the following points:</span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Does grammar matter in academic writing? Why or why not?</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Which types of grammar errors are particularly problematic in writing (i.e., which types of errors are important for you to avoid)? Why?</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Do you think you can correct your own grammar errors through proofreading? If so, how?</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">You may use this </span></span><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/Grammar%20Workshop.ppt">PPT</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> to aid your lecture/discussion.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">2. Go over the “<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/Grammar%20Diagnostic%20Quiz.docx" style="text-decoration: none;">Common ESL Grammar Errors</a>” chart and the quiz result (<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qNqZlJFqPg-7oKTB-3jWVF4XuVLSVotCeRvyNepHDqA&authuser=0">sample</a>) as a class. Ask students if there were any particular types of errors that they had difficulty with. Based on my experience, students are usually familiar with common parts of speech (verb, noun, adjective, adverb, preposition) and different kinds of tenses, singular/plural nouns, count/non-count nouns, and articles. They are usually not familiar with terms like "independent/dependent clauses, pronouns, conjunctions, sentence fragments, run-on sentences, and punctuations". However, understanding of these terms may vary from student to student (direct them to <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/vbsvh66bejnpbju/Grammar%20Term%20Glossary.docx">Grammar Term Glossary</a>).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">G</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">ive explanations accordingly. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">3. Provide <a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2013/03/grammar-resources.html">helpful grammar resources</a> students can use to work on particular grammar issues they have. If you are using <i>Writer's Help eBook</i>, you may provide </span><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/Guide%20for%20Using%20WH%20Grammar%20Resources.docx">Guide for Using WH Grammar Exercises</a>.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">1. Ask students to proofread their essays to find and fix their grammar errors, focusing on the type(s) of errors that you identified for them. (Encourage them to find as many errors as they can.) Have them use “track changes” and “comments” so that you can see the changes they made easily. Have them refer to these homework samples (sample <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/Grammar%20homework1.docx" style="text-decoration: none;">1</a>, <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/grammar%20homework%202.docx" style="text-decoration: none;">2</a>, <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/grammar%20homework3.doc" style="text-decoration: none;">3</a>). Have them upload the proofread version in their Dropbox and name it as "<i>student's name_diagnostic_grammar</i>"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">2. <b>For Writer's Help users</b>: Have your students choose which grammar errors they want to work on this semester and find appropriate exercises from </span><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/Guide%20for%20Using%20WH%20Grammar%20Resources.docx">Guide for Using WH Grammar Exercises</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: red;"></span>. Have them write down the titles of the exercises in a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/178K9AfbOK-a8HPEZMhBuacpy1phejVLY6O2NzPQG5lQ/edit?usp=sharing">Writer's Help Report</a> for you to check. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">1. Check your students’ homework from Part II and give feedback on their corrections, i</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">dentifying which types of errors the students could or could not self-correct successfully</span>. You may give this feedback in a written form or face-to-face through individual conferences. You may also have students peer review each other’s grammar correction. Be sure to address the following points in your feedback (or in peer feedback) </span></div>
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<li style="border: currentColor; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Are there any important grammar error(s) that the student could not correct? If the answer is “yes”, highlight the errors and give more detailed guide with (or without) suggested correction.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">2. Provide further help on the grammar errors that students could not self-correct appropriately (hint: according to research, students have trouble correcting "sentence structure" and "word choice" errors) by choosing <u>all or one</u> of the following options.</span></div>
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<li style="border: currentColor; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Option 1: </b>Recommend </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">specific resources from <a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2013/03/grammar-resources.html">helpful grammar resources</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that individual students can study by themselves or submit as homework. Check their work and give feedback accordingly. <a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php">Writer's Help</a> has many good tutorials on some common grammar problems.</span></li>
<li style="border: currentColor; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Option 2: </b>Choose a few grammar errors that most of students had trouble correcting on their own and design mini lesson(s) for those errors (refer to Jin's <a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2013/03/how-to-solve-word-choice-problems.html">Word Choice Lesson</a> as a sample).</span></li>
<li style="border: currentColor; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Option 3: </b>Make a learning contract with some struggling students on the most serious errors that they need to work on in order to hold them accountable. Give intensive, focused feedback on one or two errors they need to work on (meet with them if necessary). Make a contract with them stating that they will get points deducted for the same type of grammar mistakes in their subsequent drafts or in their following assignments. Encourage them to keep an <a href="http://pages.mail.bfwpub.com/Redirect.aspx?EQ=472529ec60bdf32a7d6a65d68231ba6d0ea75b5be48b27cd2edb3c28b09ac53b1b6a4fe826f5c58f188086c158260edbed02aeb3b669c43c8a350dfd418ae49c11bd0a19c6795402e8a5d27441ddcb4968f181179410539935b479c72f06ecbc49f47cc06f80fca3ce3acd3456c3085f6a3e8f0cc2dfc9b4eb17ad244f40712b7d7574b6e6d58fc21d3b6fa832a0b4ffc63af4006a4e0c9411d276a72afb952fd9cf05b2ae045ca6439ee9f91ea42ef042d15d6cf1fd80a3e858e33c77878ac02c9f3d84523cadf4cba54a139ba8802fd13823ecd00bdad53ed12c5a49bd40bcdac2abadc602ae46">error log</a>. </span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Supplementary Materials</b>: </span><br />
<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/Grammar%20Workshop.ppt" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Grammar Workshop PPT</span></a><br />
<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/Grammar%20Diagnostic%20Quiz.docx" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Grammar Diagnostic Test</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> (<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/Grammar%20Diagnostic%20Quiz%20%28Key%29.docx" style="text-decoration: none;">Key</a>)</span><br />
<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1i5xWhvqusg9WrO1zPMHqX73DuA5o8DW-htdF4MLw-Ck/viewform"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Grammar Diagnostic Test Self-scoring Sheet Sample</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/vbsvh66bejnpbju/Grammar%20Term%20Glossary.docx">Grammar Term Glossary</a></span> </span><br />
<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/feedback%20sample%201.doc" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Feedback Sample 1</span></a><br />
<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/feedback%20sample%202.docx" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Feedback Sample 2</span></a><br />
<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/feedback%20sample%203.docx" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Feedback Sample 3</span></a><br />
<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/Grammar%20homework1.docx" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Self-editing Homework Sample 1</span></a><br />
<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/grammar%20homework%202.docx" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Self-editing Homework Sample 2</a><br />
<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/grammar%20homework3.doc" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Self-editing Homework Sample 3</span></a><br />
<a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2013/03/grammar-resources.html"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Helpful Grammar Resources</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/Guide%20for%20Using%20WH%20Grammar%20Resources.docx">Guide for Using Writer's Help eBook Grammar Resources</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://pages.mail.bfwpub.com/Redirect.aspx?EQ=472529ec60bdf32a7d6a65d68231ba6d0ea75b5be48b27cd2edb3c28b09ac53b1b6a4fe826f5c58f188086c158260edbed02aeb3b669c43c8a350dfd418ae49c11bd0a19c6795402e8a5d27441ddcb4968f181179410539935b479c72f06ecbc49f47cc06f80fca3ce3acd3456c3085f6a3e8f0cc2dfc9b4eb17ad244f40712b7d7574b6e6d58fc21d3b6fa832a0b4ffc63af4006a4e0c9411d276a72afb952fd9cf05b2ae045ca6439ee9f91ea42ef042d15d6cf1fd80a3e858e33c77878ac02c9f3d84523cadf4cba54a139ba8802fd13823ecd00bdad53ed12c5a49bd40bcdac2abadc602ae46">Error Log Assignment </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>If you are interested in learning how to use technology to help students self-correct their "word choice" errors in particular, check out <a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2014/10/teaching-fair-share-using-technology-to.html">this post</a>. </i></span></div>
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<a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2013/03/common-esl-grammar-errors-and-feedback.html">Common ESL Error Types, Examples and Feedback</a><br />
Created by Jin Kim, 2011, Adapted from Ferris, D. (2002).<i> Treatment of Error in Second Language Student Writing</i>. Ann Arbor, M.I.:UM Press. The example sentences are compiled from ESL 505 Summer 2011 and ESL 501 Fall 2011 student essays)<br />
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<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/dd37dmxdimkn2fn/Grammar%20Statistics.xlsx?dl=0">Common ESL Grammar Error Statistics</a><br />
Compiled by Jin Kim from ESL 501 Fall 2011 students<br />
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<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/vnqy2fqvb8eya66/Common%20ESL%20errors%20and%20percent%20change.docx?dl=0">Common ESL Grammar Error Statistics</a><br />
Compiled by Ariel Jagusztyn from ESL 505 Fall 2013 students<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326618118257171245.post-28326317319216555512014-01-19T16:07:00.000-08:002014-01-25T04:08:40.749-08:00Error Types and Writer's Help Exercises<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">Error
Types</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">Writer's Help Exercises</span></b><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Verb tense</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?supp_page=336">Verb tense and mood 1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?supp_page=337"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Verb tense and mood 2</span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Verb form</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">(E</span></i><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">rrors in
formation of the verb phrase</span></i><i><span style="line-height: 150%;"> except for </span></i><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">tense markings</span></i><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">)</span></i></span></div>
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<a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?supp_page=359"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Verb forms and tenses</span></a> <br />
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<a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?supp_page=360"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Verb forms with modals</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?supp_page=362">Verbs followed by gerunds of infinitives</a></span></span></span></span></div>
<a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?supp_page=366">Present vs. past participles</a> (-ing vs. -ed)<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?supp_page=363">Using verbs: review for all types of verb errors</a></span></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Subject-verb </b><b>(number) </b><b>agreement</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Pronoun </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?page=5_3_1&fromLinkToPage=yes">Pronoun quick help</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Articles/determiners</b></span></div>
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<a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?supp_page=764">articles and types of nouns</a><br />
<a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?supp_page=764">Using articles 1</a><br />
<a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?supp_page=764">Using articles 2</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Noun
endings </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>(plural/possessive</i><i> endings</i><i>)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Word
choice</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>(Incorrect
use of idioms, using informal words, collocational problems) </i></span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: currentColor windowtext windowtext currentColor; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 4.75in;" valign="top" width="456"><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?page=4_4_4&fromLinkToPage=yes">misused words</a><br />
<a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?page=6_5_1&fromLinkToPage=yes">prepositions and idiomatic expressions</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Word
form </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">(Using
</span></i><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">a </span></i><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">wrong part of speech)</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span></span> <a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?page=5_4_1&fromLinkToPage=yes">Adjectives and adverbs quick help</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">9</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Sentence
structure </b></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>(general) </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;"><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?page=3_6&fromLinkToPage=yes">mixed constructions</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Sentence
structure</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>(</i><i>Run-ons</i><i>)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Technology cannot behave as powerful as the traditional teaching
method all the time</span><b><u><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">,</span></u></b><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">c</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">ombining
both could make our teaching-and-learning system much more effective.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #002060;">FB: You can’t join two complete sentences (independent
clauses) using comma alone. You should add a conjunction word in addition to
the comma. (“,”</span></i><span style="color: #002060;"><i> -> </i></span><i><span style="color: #002060;">“,so”) </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">11</span></div>
</td><td style="border-color: currentColor windowtext windowtext currentColor; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 123.05pt;" valign="top" width="164"><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Sentence
structure</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>(</i><i>Fragments</i><i>)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One stereo type is that the Islamic
religion treats women very badly. <b><u>Which is
not true</u></b>.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">FB</span></i></span><span class="longtext">:</span><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;"> This is not a complete sentence,
which can’t stand alone with a period. Connect it to the previous sentence
with a comma (</span></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #002060;"><i>-> </i></span></span>“</span></i><span style="color: #002060;">One stereo type is that the Islamic
religion treats women </span><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">very</span><span style="color: #002060;"> bad</span><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">ly</span><b><u><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">,</span></u></b><b><u><span style="color: #002060;"> </span></u></b><b><u><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">w</span></u></b><b><u><span style="color: #002060;">hich</span></u></b><span style="color: #002060;"> is not true</span><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">”) </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">12</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Punctuation</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">A</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">lumnus Max Abramovitz <b><u>an
architect of New York City’s Lincoln Center</u></b></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> designed </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">Krannert Center</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">.</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #002060; line-height: 150%;">FB</span></i><span style="color: #002060; line-height: 150%;">:</span><span style="color: #002060; line-height: 150%;"> </span><i><span style="color: #002060; line-height: 150%;">You need to enclose this phrase in
commas because it’s a break within a sentence that supplements and adds
information to the subject. Refer to Punctuation handout </span></i><span style="color: #002060; line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">13</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Missing
</b><b>elements</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>(Missing
</i><i>object, verb, subject, relative pronouns, complementizer, etc<a href="file:///C:/Users/Jin/Desktop/Dropbox/grammar%20mini%20lessons/Grammar%20workshop/Common%20ESL%20Grammar%20Errors%20and%20Feedback.docx" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></a>
– this could also be categorized as sentence structure problem</i><i>)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">T<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">he
advantages of </span><b><u><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">preventing</span></u></b><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> are </span>bigger <span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">than</span>
disadvantages.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;">FB</span></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;">: Preventing WHAT? You’re missing an object. </span></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">14</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Spelling</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have received a
lot of <b><u><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">complements</span></u></b>.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">FB: </span></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">Check the spelling </span></i></span><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">(</span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #002060;"><i>-></i></span></span></span></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;"> compliments)</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">15</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Informal language</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Malgun Gothic"; mso-fareast-language: KO;">Cloning is
an <b><u>awesome</u></b> technology. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">FB:</span></i></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Malgun Gothic"; mso-fareast-language: KO;"> </span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">This is
informal. Use more formal, specific word (e.g., </span></i></span><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">beneficial, useful)</span></i></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326618118257171245.post-32785087701208682912014-01-01T10:27:00.000-08:002014-01-28T13:09:33.335-08:00How to Solve Word Choice Problems through COCA <div style="color: black;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Objectives: </b>You will be able to...</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">Recognize common sources of word choice
problems, such as using wrong forms (wrong spelling or part of speech),
style (informal word choice), idiomatic errors (using wrong articles or
prepositions for phrasal verbs), collocation errors </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Consider various aspects of vocabulary (part
of speech, register, spelling, collocation, meaning in context, frequency,
synonymy, etc.) when choosing the “right word” to use in academic writing.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Use Google, Word and Phrase. Info, Corpus of
Contemporary American English (COCA) as
reference tools when choosing the “right word” to use in academic writing.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Recognize important considerations for
successful word search using the reference tools above</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Task 1</b>: Complete a diagnostic word choice quiz in Part I of </span><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/COCA/Word%20Choice%20Diagnostic%20Test%20%28502%29.docx"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Worksheet for ESL 502</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Task 2</b>: Solve practice questions </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">in Part 2 and 3 of</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/COCA/Word%20Choice%20Diagnostic%20Test%20%28502%29.docx"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Worksheet for ESL 502</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">with COCA </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.wordandphrase.info/frequencyList.asp">Wordandphrase.info</a></span><a href="http://www.wordandphrase.info/frequencyList.asp"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> (COCA New Interface)</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Good for beginners (user-friendly, dictionary-like interface)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Fewer number of words than regular COCA (only 120 out of 450<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">million words of texts)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">- Less custom search functions available compared to the regular interface</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">- Only one line of a text is available to study the context </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/">COCA Regular Interface</a> </span></div>
<div style="color: black;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Good for experienced users and researchers with some </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">linguistic background knowledge</span></div>
<div style="color: black;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- More </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">number of words than Word and Phrase Info</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- More custom search functions, such as phrase search, customized wild card search (wild card words with certain part of speech/collocation options, collocation search, synonym search)</span></div>
<div style="color: black;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Can read more than one line to study the context -> "Expanded text" function (Click either the year or the genre code to see the expanded text) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Task 3</b>: Register for free on </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/">COCA Website</a> and explore on your own. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Helpful Resources</b>: </span></div>
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<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/COCA/COCA%20Vidcast.wmv"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">COCA Video Tutorial</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/COCA/COCA%20Tutorial.doc">COCA Basics Paper Tutorial</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/COCA/Word%20Choice%20Problem%20Solving%20Guide%20%28Key%29.docx">Word Choice Problem Solving Guide</a> </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For setting up a good search string, choose the right search key word (an anchor word) carefully. Not all adjacent words are relevant for a search (or interpretation of the search). </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">E.g.) if you are looking for a content word that goes into the blank in I hope to ___?___ the goal, you should use the goal as an anchor word (the key word for search) because it determines the kind of the verb you should use in the blank. You should not use hope to as an anchor word.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Use a search (word) string that is an appropriate size. If the search string is too short (only one or two words), it is difficult to get a reliable answer quickly. (e.g. using only "implications" as a search word to find the preposition for "implications ___ teaching ESL") If the search string is too long (too specific), it is difficult to find many matching texts. (e.g. using "implications for teaching ESL")</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For interpreting the results, Go for MORE FREQUENTLY used phrases. "Hot debate" and "Heated debate" are both possible collocates in English, but "heated debate" is much more commonly used.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Always check the CONTEXT and GENRE. It is often dangerous to look at only the frequency count and decide which one to use. Having a higher frequency counts does not always mean both words are possible in a given context. For example, "totally" and "fully" are considered synonyms, but only one of them is desirable in academic English. Also, "received the phone call" and "answer the phone" are both possible/frequent in English, but only one of them would work in a given context.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If there is no or few result showing, it happened for one of the following reasons: 1) o</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ne of the words could be spelled wrong, or an ungrammatical word or 2) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the word combination is impossible or rare.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To view <i>Writer's Help</i> links, you should be registered and signed in at <a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php">Writer's Help</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (v 1.0, the old version). <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For Writer's Help 2.0 users, please use</span></span> <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zKHQ2Zhz9W50cfaPbTi_bxfNzk3_RLkm2lmIl38FJk8/edit?usp=sharing">Guide for Using Writer's Help eBook Grammar Resources</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> instead. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>Verb Tense, Aspect and Mood</b></span><br />
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<li><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?page=5_2_1&fromLinkToPage=yes">Verb overview</a> (Quick Help) - The following exercises are embedded in this page: </li>
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<li>Verb tense and mood 1 & 2</li>
<li>Irregular verbs 1 & 2</li>
<li>Standard English verb forms 1 & 2</li>
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<li><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?supp_page=359">Verb forms and tenses</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?supp_page=360">Verb forms with modals</a></li>
<li><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?supp_page=362">Verbs followed by gerunds or infinitives</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/part_3.htm">Gerunds and infinitives: advanced tutorial</a></li>
<li><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?supp_page=366">Present vs. past participles</a> (-ing vs. -ed)</li>
<li><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?supp_page=1124">Survey of tenses (active voice)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?supp_page=1125">Survey of tenses (passive voice)</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?page=6_3_1">Article overview</a> (Quick Help)</li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Sentence Structure </b></span></span></div>
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<li><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?page=6_2&fromLinkToPage=yes">Sentence structure overview</a> (Quick Help) </li>
<li><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?page=3_6">Mixed Construction</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://youtu.be/4o47nJHZekw">Mixed Construction Video</a> (Introduction to basic English sentence structures and common sentence structure errors)</li>
<li><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Giving%20Grammar%20Feedback/Mixed%20Constructions.docx">Mixed Construction Worksheet</a> (Introduction to basic English sentence structures and common sentence structure errors)</li>
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<a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?page=5_6_2&fromLinkToPage=yes" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Writer's Help (Run-on Explanations & Exercises)</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Sentence Boundary </b><i style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">(Fragments)</span></i></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs</span></b><br />
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<li><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?page=6_5_1">Prepositions and idiomatic expressions</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?page=6_5_3">Using nouns after prepositions</a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?page=6_5_2">Prepositions showing time and place</a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?page=6_5_4">Common adjective + preposition combinations</a></li>
<li><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?page=6_5_5">Common verb + preposition combinations</a></li>
<li><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook/pdfs/Hacker-Ex-Prepositions1.pdf">Preposition Combinations Exercises</a><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></li>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>Subject-Verb Agreement</b></span><br />
<a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?page=5_1_1&fromLinkToPage=yes">Subject-verb agreement overview</a> (Quick Help) </div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>Pronoun</b></span></div>
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<a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?page=5_3_1&fromLinkToPage=yes">Pronoun agreement, reference, case</a></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>Noun endings</b></span> </div>
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<li><a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?supp_page=181">Types of Nouns</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/agreesum.html">Plural form noun ending</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/agreesum.html">Noun Ending Grammar Quizzes </a></li>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Word choice / Spelling / Informal Language</span> </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Resources</span></span></span> for Teachers</b>: </i></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2014/10/teaching-fair-share-using-technology-to.html">How to Use Technology to Self-<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">correct Word Choice Errors</span></a> </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2012/04/word-choices-in-academic-writing-i.html" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">Word Choice Lesson Part 1</a> (50 min for Undergrad level)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2012/04/word-choice-lesson-plan-2-word-search.html" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">Word Choice Lesson Part 2</a> <span style="line-height: 150%;">(50 min for Undergrad level)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://uiucesl114.blogspot.com/2013/03/27-how-to-solve-word-choice-problems.html" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">Word Choice Lesson</a> (50 min for Undergrad - Condensed version without student homework/discussion)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2013/03/how-to-solve-word-choice-problems.html" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">Word Choice Lesson</a> (80 min for Graduate level)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/COCA/Word%20Choice%20Problem%20Solving%20Guide%20%28Key%29.docx" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">Word Choice Problem Solving Guide</a> (Useful handout for students) </span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></li>
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">R</span>esource</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="color: black;">s <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for Students</span>: </span></b></i></span></span></b><br />
<a href="https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=1FCA73C1C11D6542%212004&authkey=%21AKGSFN-JXYCY9xw&ithint=onenote%2c">Word Choice Reference Tools Guidebook</a> (<a href="http://screencast.com/t/cAmGuboGa">Video Tour</a>)<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></span></b><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b> </b></i></span> </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Word Form</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/Parts%20of%20Speech%20Exercise.docx" target="_blank">Part of Speech exercises</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?page=5_4_1&fromLinkToPage=yes"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Adjectives and adverbs quick help</span></a> </div>
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<a href="http://esl500ta.blogspot.com/2011/04/day-5-avoiding-plagiarism-part-2.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lesson Plan with Jigsaw Activity (60 min)</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://writershelp.bedfordstmartins.com/ebooks/helphandbook.php?page=7_0&fromLinkToPage=yes" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Writer's Help (Punctuation Explanations & Practice)</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Being grown up</span></u><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> in
the minority group feels confusing.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;">FB: </span></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;">Use “active” verb form (</span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #002060;"><i>-></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;"> </span></i></span></span></span></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;">“growing up”) <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">It is better to stop it than </span>to <u><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">let
the situation going</span></u><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> out of control.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;">FB: </span></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;">Let + obj (N.) + base verb (</span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #002060;"><i>-></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;"> </span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;"> “let the situation go”)</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Subject-verb </b><b>(number) </b><b>agreement<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Establishing</span></u><sup><span style="line-height: 150%;">S</span></sup><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">new laws and resources at both state and federal
levels <u>are</u></span><sup>v</sup><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">necessary.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;">FB:</span></i></span>
<span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;">A subject in a(n) “~ing/to~” form is singular</span></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;">(</span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #002060;"><i>-></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;"> </span></i></span></span></span></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;"> “is necessary”)</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Pronoun <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>(e.g., Missing </i><i>or wrong </i><i>referent </i><i>/</i><i> agreement with the
antecedent)</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">It is unfair to treat </span>someone<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">
badly just because </span><u>they</u><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><u> are</u>
suspected.</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5326618118257171245" name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;">FB:</span></i></span>
<span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“</span></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;">Someone” is singular (“they are”</span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #002060;"><i> -></i></span></span></span></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;"> “he/she is”)</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Articles/determiners<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am from different <u>universe</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">FB: </span></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">Which universe your came from is unknown to the
reader (</span></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">-></span></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;"> “a universe”)
</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Internet</u> offers many options for photo storage and
organization.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">FB: </span></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">There is only one internet that everyone knows (</span></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">à</span></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;"> “the internet”)
Refer to “Article” handout</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Noun
endings </b><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>(e.g.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span>plural<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> or </span>possessive</i><i> endings</i><i>)</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;">I received a lot of positive <u>feedbacks</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;">FB</span></i><i><span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;">: This
is a <span class="longtext"><span style="color: #002060;">non-count noun</span></span>
<span class="longtext"><span style="color: #002060;">(</span></span></span></i><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">-></span></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;"> “feedback”)</span></i></span><i><span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Word
choice<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>(<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e.g., i</span>ncorrect
use of idioms, using informal words, collocational problems) <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He looks down <u>to</u> others who are less
fortunate than him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>FB</i><i>:
Idiom error (</i><span style="color: #002060;"><i>-> "</i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;">look down on" someone)</span></i></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Malgun Gothic";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Malgun Gothic"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I hope to <u>succeed</u> the goal</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Malgun Gothic";">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>FB</i><i>:
<span style="color: #002060;">Collocation error (-> “achieve/reach”
the goal)</span></i><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Malgun Gothic";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Word
form </b><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">(Using
</span></i><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">a </span></i><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">wrong part of speech)</span></i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">We need to <u>analysis</u>
this problem.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>FB</i>: <i><span style="color: #002060;">This is a noun form. You need a VERB here
</span></i>(-> "<span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;">analyze”)</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Sentence
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>(general) <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was reported that administrators<sup><span style="line-height: 150%;">s</span></sup><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span><u>decided</u><sup><span style="line-height: 150%;">v</span></sup><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span>to make Chicago River swimmable <u>intensified</u><sup><span style="line-height: 150%;">v</span></sup>
the debate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">FB</span></i><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">: You have two verbs in this that-clause. Only one
subject + verb is allowed in one clause. (</span></i><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">“intensified” -> “,which
intensified”) </span></i><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;"> </span><span style="color: #002060;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Sentence
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>(</i><i>e.g., <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">r</span>un-on<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> sentences</span></i><i>)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Technology cannot behave as powerful as the traditional teaching
method all the time</span><u><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">,</span></u><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">c</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">ombining
both could make our teaching-and-learning system much more effective.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #002060;">FB: You can’t join two complete sentences (independent
clauses) using comma alone. You should add a conjunction word in addition to
the comma. (“,”</span></i><span style="color: #002060;"><i> -> </i></span><i><span style="color: #002060;">“,so”) </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">11<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Sentence
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>(</i><i>e.g., <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">f</span>ragments</i><i>)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One stereo type is that the Islamic
religion treats women very badly. <u>Which is
not true</u>.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">FB</span></i></span><span class="longtext">:</span><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;"> This is not a complete sentence,
which can’t stand alone with a period. Connect it to the previous sentence
with a comma (</span></i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #002060;"><i>-> </i></span></span>“</span></i><span style="color: #002060;">One stereo type is that the Islamic
religion treats women </span><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">very</span><span style="color: #002060;"> bad</span><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">ly</span><u><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">,</span></u><u><span style="color: #002060;"> </span></u><u><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">w</span></u><u><span style="color: #002060;">hich</span></u><span style="color: #002060;"> is not true</span><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">”)</span></i></span></td>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">12<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Punctuation<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">A</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">lumnus Max Abramovitz <u>an
architect of New York City’s Lincoln Center</u></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> designed </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">Krannert Center</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">.</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #002060; line-height: 150%;">FB</span></i><span style="color: #002060; line-height: 150%;">:</span><span style="color: #002060; line-height: 150%;"> </span><i><span style="color: #002060; line-height: 150%;">You need to enclose this phrase in
commas because it’s a break within a sentence that supplements and adds
information to the subject. Refer to Punctuation handout </span></i><span style="color: #002060; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">13<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Missing
</b><b>elements<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>(e.g., Missing
</i><i>object, verb, subject, relative pronouns, complementizer<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Jin/Desktop/Dropbox/grammar%20mini%20lessons/Grammar%20workshop/Common%20ESL%20Grammar%20Errors%20and%20Feedback.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></i><i>)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">T<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">he
advantages of </span><u><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">preventing</span></u><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> are </span>bigger <span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">than</span>
disadvantages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;">FB</span></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060;">: Preventing WHAT? You’re missing an object. <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">14<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Spelling<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have received a
lot of <u><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">complements</span></u>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">FB: </span></i></span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">Check the spelling </span></i></span><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">(</span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #002060;"><i>-></i></span></span></span></i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;"> compliments)</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">15<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Informal language<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Malgun Gothic"; mso-fareast-language: KO;">Cloning is
an <u>awesome</u> technology. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">FB:</span></i></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Malgun Gothic"; mso-fareast-language: KO;"> </span><span class="longtext"><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">This is
informal. Use more formal, specific word (e.g., </span></i></span><i><span style="color: #002060; mso-fareast-language: KO;">beneficial, useful)</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In a syntax term, this problem has to do with missing “arguments”. Certain verb
requires certain number of arguments (agent, patient, beneficiary, recipient,
etc.) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">this could also be categorized as sentence structure problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Note 1</b>: <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">R</span>un-on sentences and fragments (#10, 11) could also be labelled as “Sentence Boundaries”. The informal language (#15) could also be seen as a word choice (#7) error. Using passive voice, categorized under verb from (#2) in this table could also be its own category. Note that many example sentences in this chart include multiple types of errors, but focus on the type of error that each sentence belongs to. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Depending
on your student’s level and needs, you may provide the comment </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with or without</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> possible revision (i.e., phrases in parenthesis). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Note 2</b>: For un<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">fami<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">liar grammar terms, please refer to <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ixxm70ylbebyise/Grammar%20Term%20Glossary.docx?dl=0">Grammar Term Glossary</a></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>References</b>:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.8500003814697px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">Ferris, D. (2002).</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.8500003814697px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"> Treatment of Error in Second Language Student Writing</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.8500003814697px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">. Ann Arbor, M.I.:UM Press. The example sentences are mostly compiled from ESL 505 Summer 2011 and ESL 501 Fall 2011 student essays)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326618118257171245.post-74516685318733172512013-03-06T10:29:00.000-08:002013-03-06T10:29:55.838-08:00Reflection on Teaching "Word Search Strategies Using COCA" in ESL 115<h3>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Watch<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/COCA/COCA%20Vidcast.wmv"> this video</a> about how to use COCA as a reference tool in ESL writing</span></h3>
<b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Background
for developing “Word Search Strategies Using COCA” lesson </span></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Word-choice problems, the most frequent type of errors in ESL 115
(Principles of Academic Writing) class that I am teaching, are often difficult
for ESL students to self-correct, which is why they are often “treated” with
direct feedback from teachers. However, giving direct feedback for individual
students’ idiosyncratic word-choice errors requires significant amount of time and
energy on the teacher’s part. Moreover, such direct feedback is less effective
in bringing long-term improvement than indirect feedback. I wanted to help
students self-check the appropriateness of their own word choices when problems
are noticed either by themselves or by others by using a free online corpus
concordancing program called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Corpus of
Contemporary American English (COCA).</i> Many ESL students rely on bilingual
dictionaries or thesauruses when searching for the “right words”, or the better
words, which often results in collocation or register problems. Many empirical
studies have already shown that learners’ direct corpora consultation in L2
writing courses can be of great help in this regard as long as it is assisted
properly with teachers’ guidance. Specifically, by using Wildcard, Collocation,
Key-Word-in-Context (KWIC), Chart (Genre), and Synonym search functions in
COCA, students can solve and prevent various word choice problems: word form
errors (e.g. wrong spelling, part of speech, etc.), style errors (using
informal words), idiomatic errors (using wrong articles or prepositions for
phrasal verbs), collocation errors. In terms of integrating this lesson to the
existing curriculum, I taught this lesson at the end of the “Writing Process
(Diagnostic Essay)” unit, where students learn basic skills for pre-writing,
paragraph structures, writing introductions and conclusions, revising, and
proofreading. In other words, this lesson was taught as one of the proofreading
strategies lessons along with other mini grammar lessons. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Description
of “Word Search Strategies Using COCA” lesson</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Word Search Strategies Using COCA” lesson were divided into
two 50-minute class periods. The first part (day) of the lesson was created to
diagnose and raise students’ awareness of common sources of word choice
problems as well as to help them realize the importance of considering various
aspects of vocabulary (part of speech, register, spelling, collocation, meaning
in context, frequency, and synonymy) It was also aimed at encouraging students
to share word search strategies that they commonly use when writing an academic
assignment. Based on this raised awareness of common word choice problems and
strategies to solve/prevent them, the second part (day) of the lesson was
created to teach using corpus consultation as one of the reference tools for
word choice problems. Since Google and dictionaries are the most widely used word
search tools for most ESL students, the training was focused on showing how the
search functions in COCA and its sister website Word and Phrase. Info can give
more reliable and helpful search results for academic writing. The aim of the
lesson, however, was not to encourage students to stop using Google or
dictionaries, but to show them how COCA can complement using Google or
dictionaries only for reference tools. Also, in order not to make them learn
COCA as an end itself but as a “problem-solving” tool, I used word choice
problem examples from the diagnostic quiz that students took in the first day
of the lesson and encouraged students to think of as many solutions as possible
before I showing them relevant search functions of COCA. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">After the lesson, in order to test how much they gained from
learning various word search strategies, I asked the students to hand in “word
choice homework”, where students had to identify three word choice problems in
their diagnostic essays and correct those problems by using Google, </span><a href="http://www.wordandphrase.info/frequencyList.asp"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">http://www.wordandphrase.info/frequencyList.asp</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <span style="color: black;">or </span></span><a href="http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">. <span style="color: black;">They
were also asked to provide screenshot images for these three searches as
evidence. If they wanted to, they could use the word choice problems that I had
already pointed out (but not corrected) in my feedback to their essays.
However, the fact that they had to devise their own search strategies for their
own different kinds of word choice problems made this homework “their” work. Overall,
the majority of the students could get successful search results and corrected
their errors accurately. However, there were also many students who showed less
successful work for the following reasons: failing to recognize the right type
of word choice error which led them to devise a wrong search string, failing to
devise the most effective search strategies even after establishing the right
search string, failing to interpret the search results to correct the error in
the right way, etc. Given that only one day of search strategy training session
was provided and that not the entire 50 minute lesson was devoted to teaching
corpus consultation skills, this moderate success in students’ performance is
not surprising. In the literature review on corpus consultation in L2 writing
that I conducted while teaching this lesson, all researchers recommend that a
gradual, guided training with “apprenticeship” approach is the key for
successful integration of corpus investigation in L2 writing classroom. Therefore,
having a longer period of learner training session for corpus consultation
strategies seems necessary in order to gain more successful effect for this
lesson. Although I could not afford any more class time for holding further
training sessions, I was pleased to find out that many students actually went
on to use COCA for other word choice problems in other writing
assignments. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <span style="color: black;">As for the
impact of teaching this lesson on my development as an instructor, there were
several benefits that I gained. First of all, I realized how difficult it is to
create a strategy training module that makes use of the class time to the
maximum. One of the biggest challenges I faced when creating and implementing
this lesson was “time” – fitting this lesson into an already tight course
syllabus. Since the suggested ESL 115 course syllabus that I have to follow
does not leave much room for spending much time on teaching “proofreading
strategies”, I had to think of the most effective way to deliver this lesson,
which led me to 1) analyze the most frequent types of word choice problems in
their essays and focus on those problems only, 2) use the common search
strategies that students are already familiar with as a starting point, and 3)
assign individual corpus consultation work as homework and give individual
feedback outside of class. Secondly, I learned that knowing effective word
search strategies myself and teaching them are very different. Even though I
could devise and carry out many advanced searches on my own for my own writing
assignments, it was hard for me to come up with justifications for why certain
search strategy works for a certain problem and explain the complicated search
process in a very simple term for learners who are less fluent in using
linguistic technology and English. Finally, the positive and rewarding feedback
I received from the learners made me realize that despite numerous challenges
expected, it is always worth “trying it out” when it comes to
technology-enhanced teaching. Teachers, including myself, are often reluctant
to trying new technology for fear that it may fail and we may lose confidence
and authority if things go out of control (as all technologies often do).
However, this is not a good excuse for not introducing the technology at all
because we never know how much “just introducing it” can contribute to
learning: from my experience, learners, who have much more imagination and
creativity than teachers, can go “so much further” at exploring technology than
we initially expect. </span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326618118257171245.post-3954543583466393312012-04-18T13:55:00.001-07:002018-01-23T12:39:14.049-08:00Word Choice Lesson Plan 2 - Word Search Strategy Training<div style="color: black;">
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Created by Jin Kim (Spring, 2012) </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><br />
Objectives:</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> Students
will be able to...</span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> Use Google, Word and Phrase. Info, Corpus of
Contemporary American English</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> (COCA)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> as
reference tools when choosing the “right word” to use in academic writing </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> Recognize important considerations for
successful word search using the reference tools above</span></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Preparation: </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol";">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Students & Teachers:
Register (free) for </span><a href="http://www.wordandphrase.info/frequencyList.asp"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">http://www.wordandphrase.info/frequencyList.asp</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> <span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(</span></span>This
would also allow them access to </span><a href="http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> since they can use the same
email and password to log into both websites). Bring the copy of <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/COCA/Word%20Choice%20Diagnostic%20Test%20%28student%29.docx">Word Choice Diagnostic Test</a> they took in the
previous class. <b> </b></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Teachers: Familiarize
yourself with two main reference tools</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> for this lesson </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">COCA</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> and its new interface (</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Word and Phrase. Info</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> Use <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/z8hdhy96jgvi7z1/COCA%20Tutorial.doc?dl=0" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">COCA Tutorial</span></a> to study on your own. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Note: you may share this tutorial with students as well after today’s
lesson if desired.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">[10 minutes] Introduction </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">of Lesson Objectives </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Introduce students to the
objectives of today’s lesson stated above and explain to them that we are going
to use the examples from <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/wgw9j3s2nj38k2f/Word%20Choice%20Diagnostic%20Test%20%28student%29.docx?dl=0">Word ChoiceDiagnostic Test</a> to
demonstrate how to use different reference tools to prevent different word
choice errors without relying on our intuition</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">. You may also tell your students the following note about how they
should approach the matter of using reference tools for word choice problems.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">(Note: as non-native speakers, students’ intuition
for choosing the right words is not yet fully developed and there is also L1
inhibition in their judgment. Nonetheless, building a reliable intuition for
choosing the right words through comprehensive reading is the </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">ultimate solution</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> to </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">preventing </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">word choice problems since using
reference tools </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">like Google or COCA </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">can only be effective when students already know at
least which word sounds </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">somewhat </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">wrong or
awkward) </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Ask students to open </span><a href="http://www.google.com/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Google.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> and log into </span><a href="http://www.wordandphrase.info/frequencyList.asp"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">http://www.wordandphrase.info/frequencyList.asp</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> website. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">[</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">40</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> minutes] </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Word Choice Problem-Solving Practice </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Walk students through <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/COCA/Word%20Choice%20Problem%20Solving%20Guide%20%28Student%29.docx">Word Choice ProblemSolving Guide</a>. Use the <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/COCA/Word%20Choice%20Problem%20Solving%20Guide%20%28Key%29.docx">key</a> to guide them step by step. I recommend
you to share this <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/COCA/Word%20Choice%20Problem%20Solving%20Guide%20%28Key%29.docx">key</a> handout after class for those students who want to
review the search processes at home. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Homework: </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Find three "word choice" problems.
Solve the problem using Google, </span><a href="http://www.wordandphrase.info/frequencyList.asp"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">http://www.wordandphrase.info/frequencyList.asp</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">, or </span><a href="http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/.</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><br />
Name your homework file as</span> “<b>First
name_word choice homework</b>”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To view students' homework and teacher feedback samples, visit <a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2012/04/esl-115-students-word-choice-homework.html">here</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To view ESL 115 class survey results of this lesson, visit <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/COCA/ESL%20115%20D%20Class%20COCA%20Survey%20Result.docx">here</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To view a teaching reflection written after this lesson, visit <a href="http://cocalessons.blogspot.com/2012/04/reflection-on-word-search-strategies.html">here</a>. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Supplementary materials: </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/z8hdhy96jgvi7z1/COCA%20Tutorial.doc?dl=0"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">COCA Tutorial </span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/wgw9j3s2nj38k2f/Word%20Choice%20Diagnostic%20Test%20%28student%29.docx?dl=0" style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Word ChoiceDiagnostic Test</a><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/yit275g66juo9w3/Word%20Choice%20Problem%20Solving%20Guide%20%28Student%29.docx?dl=0"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Word Choice Problem Solving Practice Guide(Student)</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/sk9nw80hb7ogtnq/Word%20Choice%20Problem%20Solving%20Guide%20%28Key%29.docx?dl=0"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Word Choice Problem Solving Practice Guide (Key)</span></a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326618118257171245.post-88635268331461414882012-04-18T13:37:00.003-07:002018-01-23T12:41:33.992-08:00Word Choice Lesson Plan 1<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Created by Jin Kim (Spring, 2012) </span></b><br />
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Objectives:</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> Students
will be able to...</span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> Recognize common sources of word choice
problems, such as using wrong forms (wrong spelling or part of speech),
style (informal word choice), idiomatic errors (using wrong articles or
prepositions for phrasal verbs), collocation errors</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> Consider various aspects of vocabulary (part
of speech, register, spelling, collocation, meaning in context, frequency,
synonymy, etc.) when choosing the “right word” to use in academic writing </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> Share some common search strategies and
reference tools people use when choosing the “right word”</span></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Teacher Instructions and Tasks: </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">[10 minutes] Diagnostic Test</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Give students the <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/wgw9j3s2nj38k2f/Word%20Choice%20Diagnostic%20Test%20%28student%29.docx?dl=0">Word ChoiceDiagnostic Test</a> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">in hard copy and have them follow directions to answer all items
in step 1 and 2.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">[20 minutes] Small group Discussion</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Give
students the discussion prompt below and have them find the answers to the diagnostic
test together in small groups. You may first give them an example to
demonstrate how to discuss the questions together by discussing the answer for
item 1 in step 1. You may have every group examine all items at the same time
or assign smaller sets of items for each group to examine (e.g. assign #1~3 in
step 1 to group 1, #4~6 to group 2, etc.) and then have each group report their
findings to the whole class.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Group
Discussion Prompt</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; line-height: 150%;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; line-height: 150%;">What is the right (or more appropriate) word
choice? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; line-height: 150%;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; line-height: 150%;">The wrong word choice: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; line-height: 150%;"> 1)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; line-height: 150%;">What type
of error is made in this word choice? (e.g. spelling, grammar, style, etc.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; line-height: 150%;"> 2)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; line-height: 150%;">How
common is this error in our writing?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; line-height: 150%;"> 3)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; line-height: 150%;">How
can we avoid an error like this? (What kinds of strategies can we use?)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; line-height: 150%;"></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; line-height: 150%;">Share the
strategies or reference tools you often use to solve this word choice problem. </span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">[10 minutes] Answer Check & Class
Discussion</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Debrief<b>
</b>findings from small group discussions as a class. Use </span><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/vgoo1c87m2fulrn/Word%20Choice%20Diagnostic%20Test%20%28Key%29.docx?dl=0"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Word Choice Diagnostic Test (Key)</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> as a guide. Remember that the purpose of the discussion
is not to “teach” students what to do to solve the problems (this will be
addressed in Word Choice Lesson 2) but to raise students’ awareness of the
sources of common errors in vocabulary and investigate strategies that students
use to avoid such errors than about telling them what to do to solve problems. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">[10 minutes~] Optional –
Understanding Collocations</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Among
all different types of word choice errors, students may not be well aware of
“collocation” errors yet. To raise students’ awareness, you may </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">hand out <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/7f6qb2o4p0fr54n/COCA_Worksheet%28student%29-final.doc?dl=0">CollocationWorksheet</a> to students. Go over definitions and examples with students. Then,
have them do the simple practice as homework. Emphasize the importance of
learning collocations when learning a new word or phrases. </span><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/1r7l3quswn1cysx/Collocations%20%28Teacher%29.doc?dl=0"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Here</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> is the key. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Homework: </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">For the next class (Word Choice
Strategy Training), have students register for </span><a href="http://www.wordandphrase.info/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">http://www.wordandphrase.info/</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">.</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">This would also allow them access
to </span><a href="http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> since they can use the same
email and password to log into both websites. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Supplementary materials: </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/wgw9j3s2nj38k2f/Word%20Choice%20Diagnostic%20Test%20%28student%29.docx?dl=0" style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Word ChoiceDiagnostic Test</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/vgoo1c87m2fulrn/Word%20Choice%20Diagnostic%20Test%20%28Key%29.docx?dl=0"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Word Choice Diagnostic Test (Key)</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/7f6qb2o4p0fr54n/COCA_Worksheet%28student%29-final.doc?dl=0"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Collocation Worksheet (Student)</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/1r7l3quswn1cysx/Collocations%20%28Teacher%29.doc?dl=0"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Collocation Worksheet (Key)</span></a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">References:</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-weight: normal;">Zimmerman, C. (2009). Word Knowledge. New York: Oxford
University Press</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"></span></b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5326618118257171245.post-39439976684763712062012-04-12T08:51:00.003-07:002012-04-15T22:11:20.594-07:00ESL 115 Students' Word Choice Homework<div style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">After teaching word choice lesson 1 and 2, I had my students do "word choice homework" with the following directions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Directions</b>: Find three "word choice" problems that I marked in your diagnostic essay. Solve the problems using Google, COCA, or Word and Phrase. Info. Name your homework file as "First name_word choice homework.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here are some samples of students' work and my feedback:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/COCA/Homework%20samples/homework%201.docx">Sample 1</a> (<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/COCA/Homework%20samples/homework%201%20%28feedback%29.docx">Feedback</a>)</span></div>
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<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/COCA/Homework%20samples/homework%202.docx"><span style="font-size: small;">Sample 2</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> (<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/COCA/Homework%20samples/homework%202%20%28feedback%29.docx">Feedback</a>)</span></div>
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<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/COCA/Homework%20samples/homework%203.docx"><span style="font-size: small;">Sample 3</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> (<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/COCA/Homework%20samples/homework%203%20%28feedback%29.docx">Feedback</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here is the <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10429778/COCA/ESL%20115%20D%20Class%20COCA%20Survey%20Result.docx">student survey result</a> conducted after the homework was submitted. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com