Okayama JALT:

Online Corpus Workshop

Date: Saturday, July 7th, 2012 Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Speaker: Ted O'Neill

Description:
This hands-on workshop will guide teachers through several applications for online corpus analysis tools. It will include three types of activities useful in teaching practice and in research such as: diagnostic exercises, using Range to investigate materials for teaching and to help with curriculum development choices, tools for comparing texts, and a simulation of a short research project. Participants are encouraged, but not required to bring texts they would like to investigate in plaintext files (.txt) format. All other materials will be provided.

Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Okayama JALT)

Cost: JALT Members: free
Non-members: 500 yen

Venue: Okayama University, LEC, Room A-12

Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

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Website: http://sites.google.com/site/okayamajalt/