English Collocation Learning through Corpus Data -- On-line Concordance and Statistical Information -- PROCEEDINGS
Hiroshi Ohtake, Fukui Prefectural University, Japan ; Nobuyuki Fujita, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, Japan ; Takeshi Kawamoto, Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan ; Brian Morren, Fukui Prefectural University, Japan ; Yoshihiro Ugawa, Miyagi University of Education, Japan ; Shuji Kaneko, Kyoto University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Japan
AACE Award
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology, in Denver, Colorado, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-95-2 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
Abstract
We developed an English Collocations On Demand system offering on-line corpus and concordance information to help Japanese researchers acquire a better command of English collocation patterns. The Life Science Dictionary Corpus consists of approximately 90,000,000 words collected from life science related research papers published in academic journals. To make actual collocation problems clear, we compiled a learner corpus consisting of about 10,000,000 words taken from papers written by Japanese researchers in the same fields as the LSD corpus and compared the collocation patterns used by Japanese researchers with those used by native speakers of English. Some collocation patterns in the writing of Japanese researchers were found to be erroneous or deviating from natural English norms. Our system offers on-line information about collocations and collocates for any given English word and is therefore expected to help enhance the accuracy of learners’ word selections and combinations.
Citation
Ohtake, H., Fujita, N., Kawamoto, T., Morren, B., Ugawa, Y. & Kaneko, S. (2012). English Collocation Learning through Corpus Data -- On-line Concordance and Statistical Information --. In T. Amiel & B. Wilson (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (pp. 1544-1549). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
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