Transcript Week 3 lecture 5

Week 3 lecture 5
Words, Vocabulary, Text and
Definitions
Website of the day
• Bots are simple examples of AI ( Artificial
Intelligence)
http://mybot.ai.com/mybot.aspx?id=u@G@LLQUDbk0/BbOR
usKORyZ5TTF9w1nVfYG0HVdeUk=
How could you a bot for language learning?
Clarify from last lesson
• Jumping from teaching/learning approach to
“learning theory” that underpins it
• Constructivism ( theory about how we learn)
• Behaviourism ( theory about how we learn)
• Audio lingualism ( approach to
teaching/learning)
• Task based learning ( approach to
teaching/learning)
Words Clouds
• Very popular tools
• Take “text” reduce it, take out small words and focus
on the key “meaning” words
• Good example is wordsift
• Reduces text
• Focus on key words
• Organises words
• Concordance ( takes examples from text of how
vocabulary is used)
• Images
• Visual Dictionary Element
Word Sift
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How could you use it in language teaching?
Why is it useful?
Other examples
Wordlle.net
http://www.tagxedo.com/
Dictionaries
• There are a whole range of dictionaries on the
internet. Here are a few interesting ones
http://www.visuwords.com/
http://www.wordia.com/
http://www.vocabahead.com/
Fun with words
• http://www.flickriver.com/
• http://www.gifup.com/
• http://labs.google.com/sets