❀ Week 6 ❀ Modal Auxiliary in British English : A Corpus-Based Study of Modality through British National Corpus

This paper present about  Modality, BNCweb and Corpus Linguistics.

📌BNCweb 

      provides means of corpus linguistic analysis. Is a useful device to explore practical usage in English Language. Beside common grammatical knowledge.

📌Objectives

- shed some light on modal verbs of which meaning are difficult to make distinction on theoretical background.

- affirm that modalities can be interchangeable due to different context, such as gender, type of data, perceived level of difficulty.

📌Methods

Three modal verbs (should, have to,must) will be scrutinized by available functions (distribution, collocation and concordance) via BNCweb in order to offer empirical information, such as grammatical usage and discursive practice, of modalities in British context. Details of methodology in each function will be subsequently explained in results and discussion section.

Modal verbs "must","have to","should" have been explained in theoretical usage in many textbooks and sometimes each one has been unforeseen patterns that co-occur with each modal verb and this will assist, at least, English teachers to give realistic examples to students from the top list of collocates.

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Week 5 Using Corpus Analysis Software to Analyse Specialised texts

Using Corpus Analysis Software to Analyse Specialised texts

1. What is a corpus? 

A corpus can be generally defined as a collection of naturally-occurring texts in a computer-readable format which can be retrieved and analyzed using corpus analysis software.

2. Sources of language corpora 

- Subscribe to a large corpus provider such as the British National Corpus (BNC) 

- Use web concordancing (for instance http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk, http://corpus.byu.edu/)

- Compile own corpora and analyze data using corpus analysis software like ‘Antconc’ , ‘Wordsmith’ or ‘Paraconc’.

3. Designing a specialized corpus 

- Corpus size

- Text extracts vs. full texts

- Number of texts

- Medium

- Subject and text type

- Other considerations

4. Sources of specialized texts

- Printed materials

- Word document texts

- CD-ROMs

- Text on the Web

- Online databases

5. Getting started with Antconc

Download the latest version and watch YouTube tutorials from 

http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_index.html

6. Creating a specialized corpus profile

Size	96,736  words
Source of corpus data	From the internet (anybookfree.com/series/book/the-hunger-games)
Number of texts	25 texts
Medium	Spoken
Subject	Series The Hunger Games
Text type	New article
Authorship
Language	Texts written in English mostly by native speaker
Publication date	Recent texts (Retrieved in August 2018)

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Questions for digital writing paper

1. What are the problems struggling writers have in writing classes?

Answer :  many struggling writers often have language difficulties. For example, These learners usually have poor handwriting(or has difficulty to write) and writes slowly or illegibly.

2.  What does 'digital writing' refer to?

Answer :  Digital writing is becoming a standard way of life for young learners within Generation M. 

3. What are the three digital writing tools? Give brief descriptions?

Answer:  1. Blogs- A blog is a discusion,informational article or personal journal, published on the World Wide Web.

               2. Instant Messaging(IM) is a form of internet-based,real time text communication between users on the same system. 

               3. Social Network Site( SNS) is a website or an online service platform in which people share interest,create a public or semi-public profile,and interact with other users.

How has digital writing enhanced the teaching of writing?

4. How has digital writing enhanced the teaching of writing?

Answer: Increasing numbers of digital writing tools have emerged within the field of teaching writing.

5. What are the things that you should take into consideration to employ digital writing for teaching academic writing?

Answer:   The things that you should take into consideration to employ digital writing for teaching academic writing is shorthand,abbreviations,and emoticons.

6. Which activity do you like most? Why?

Answer:  In my thought,I like Closed Group Community Because, teacher and students  contact and communicate each other easily. 

              In my thought,I like Role play because the students can recognize the lesson easily and This activity interest the learners to pay attention in this lesson. And,this activity 






    

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English as a Foreign Language

1. Purpose☺ -----> For examing students' perceptions of and attitudes towards using Weblogs.
2. The participants of this research were twenty undergraduate English Major female students in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University. Their ages ranged from 22 to 24 years and they were in the fifth-year of their studies.
3.Tool☺---->  short questionnaires,interview questionaires and student Blogs.
4.Discussion and Conclusion☺- Weblogs can provide an exciting and motivating learning environment where students have a sense of ownweship and readership. They can be used to enhance student analytical and critical thinking skills,create social interactions between students and the instructor,students and their peers,and students and a global audience.❤

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English as a Second Language

what is a Weblog?

A weblog can be thought of as an online journal that an individual can continuously update with his or her " own words" ,ideas, and thoughts through software that enables one to easily do so.

Three Types of Weblogs for Use in ESL Classrooms

1. The Tutor Blog -----> It gives daily reading practice to the learners.
                              -----> It promotes exploration of English websites.
                              -----> It encourages online verbal exchange by use of comment buttons.
                              -----> It provides class or syllabus information.
                              -----> It serves as a resource of links for self-study.
2. The Learner Blog ----> In ESL, Learner blogs may be best suited for reading and writing classes.
                                  ----> A common reading assignment can be followed by blog postings on the thoughts of each learner or group of learner.
                                  ----> Blogs can be used as journals for writing practice,or as free-form templates for personal expression.

3. The class Blog  ---->  Class blogs could also be used as a virtual space for an international classroom language exchange.
                              ---->  With intermediate and advanced learners, class blogs might also useful for facilitating project.
                              ----> For reading and writing classes, it might also involve the use of  knowledge management software.
                              ----> In conversation-based classes it could be used like a free-form bulletin board for learners to post messages,images, and links related to classroom discussion topics. It could also be a space for them to post thoughts on a common theme assigned for homework.❤

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Introducing Myself

      Hi there! My name is Jirapat Rittisak. My nickname is Top.I am20 years old. I am studying in Faculty of Education in English Major at NSTRU.
There are  4 people in my family. My favorite food is Hamburger. My favorite sports are weight-training and volleyball. In my freetime, I usually watch series, hangout with friends and cook food.💓😊

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