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Building and Translating OER in English for the Brazilian Context
Brazilian Association for Distance EducationSao Paulo, Brazil
Alannah Fitzgerald http://www.flickr.com/photos/oter/3006499552/
Workshop & Presentation Overview
• Demonstration and play with the FLAX project (Flexible Language Acquisition) tools and collections
• Discussion on key questions from the TOETOE International project with the University of Oxford (Technology for Open English – Toying with Open E-resources)
Digital LibraryDigital Library
Collocation database
Collocation database
GlossaryGlossary
Any other resourceAny other resource
flax.nzdl.org
BNC/BAWE
Learning Collocations collection in FLAXFLAX team collections building:
Shaoqun Wu, Ian Witten, Margaret Franken, Xiaofeng Yu – Waikato University
http://tinyurl.com/73zcgac
Where are the good published collocations resources?
• Research shows that the successful use of collocations in student writing and speaking supports not only improved levels of accuracy but also improved levels of fluency in their use of English (Wray, 2002; Nesselhauf, 2003).
• Constraints with published collocations resources– Publication issues = the number and specificity of
collocations examples that can be assigned to print and CD-ROM formats.
British Academic Written English corpus:browse by genre or discipline
Moving away from mutt genres with digitally enhanced and authentic genres
• “ ‘mutt genres’—genres that do not respond to rhetorical situations requiring communication in order to accomplish a purpose that is meaningful to the author” (Wardell, 2009).
• “Unsurprisingly, the utility of the corpus is increased when it has been annotated, making it no longer a body of text where linguistic information is implicitly present, but one which may be considered a repository of linguistic information.” (ICT4LT, Module 3.4 Corpus Linguistics http://www.ict4lt.org/en/en_mod3-4.htm)
BAWE sub corpus wordlists
The BAWE sub corpus text collections:POS-tagging phrases
http://tinyurl.com/cpwyefb
Search and store collocations
Retrieve and save collocations
Collocational links to further resources
Word lists: general, academic, specific, key
How could you use the FLAX collections in your teaching and learning?
TOETOE International
• International Collaboration• Canada, China, Korea, New Zealand, Vietnam,
India, United Kingdom, Brazil• OER for ELT
• Corpora, Open Source Software, Creative Commons Content
• FLAX and OpenSpires / Great Writers Inspire• University of Waikato & University of Oxford
The Great Beyond with Open English Language Resources
Open Education Conference 2012 Vancouver, Canada
Resource re-use card game: OER quality
http://www.slideshare.net/orioleproject/chris-pegler-reusable-card-game
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Promoting Open Educational Resources for English Language Teaching
Beijing, China
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4427310974 Alannah Fitzgerald
Message from the Chinese teachers
• In addition to the resource collections already built in FLAX, they wanted language collections that reflected their syllabuses, their texts, their students’ language needs and so on.
• But how do you take teachers whose materials development practices rely on copyrighted teaching resources through the stages of collections building to become open corpus developers?
• We know we can’t anticipate every need to build specific collections for everyone but we can develop simple-to-use open tools to help teachers and learners do it for themselves.
What can publishers do with CC-BY OER?
Happy English Learning
Open Educational Resources for English Language TeachingKorea University Workshop
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hyunwoosun/4965487511 Alannah Fitzgerald
The English language industry
“Korea currently has nearly 100,000 hagwons, which must receive a permit from the local education government to operate. The concentration of around 6000 hagwons in the Gangnam district of Seoul is thought to be an important factor in the high housing prices in that area, which has become a major social issue. The hagwons have more teachers than the public school system and attract the best ones with higher salaries. Admission to prestigious hagwons is challenging and depends on entrance exams.” (OECD Economic Surveys: Korea 2012, p.131)
iTunesU
http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/
It’s all in the downloads
University Downloads
Open University, UK Over 34 million since June 2008
University of Oxford Over 9 million since June 2008
Coventry University 2.5 million in 2010 alone
University of Warwick 1 million Jan ‘09 – June ‘10
http://www.slideshare.net/tbirdcymru/itunes-u-corporate-channel-of-free-educational-resources
Networking Open Tertiary Writing
Resources
New Zealand Tertiary Writers’ Colloquium Waikato University
Alannah Fitzgerald http://www.flickr.com/photos/yaph/8022682955
English for Academic Purposes Forum (EULEAP)
http://euleap.ning.com/
The EAP Blogosphere
http://www.youtube.com/user/AntlabJPN#p/u/1/_z9wwX7eR-Y
Open Educational Resources in English for Academic
Purposes Hanoi Open University
WorkshopJanuary 11th, 2013
Halong Bay by Saturn CC-BY-NC-SAAlannah Fitzgerald
Sustainable OER
“Vice President Tung was eager to tell me that OER and OCW were the lifelong learning mission they had been edging toward for the past fifteen years, putting aside faculty and university savings to be able to show their commitment to the MoE once the opportunity to wear the OCW/OER mantel arose. There was no government funding in this area, only government policies and guidelines.”
Building Open Educational Resources for ELT
Delhi University WorkshopJanuary 15th, 2013
http://cie.du.ac.in/ Alannah Fitzgerald
From digital to print OER
• Working with print OER while online connectivity in classrooms catches up.– Developing high quality print-based OER course
packs
• What derivatives can we develop in paper-based formats from corpus-based resources?
Emancipatory English with Open Educational Resources
Alannah Fitzgerald
English as lingua franca
• How can we create open English language resources that are high-quality and flexible?
• Beyond translation, how can we support English-medium content so you can learn English at the same time?
• Beyond English, how can we support e.g. Portuguese-medium content so you can learn Portuguese at the same time?
• How can the same open tools and resources be used to develop flexible, high-quality resources for learning any language?
FLAX Weaving with Oxford Open Educational Resources
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cynnyw/235579293/ Alannah Fitzgerald
“In the late 19th century Oxford was one of the pioneers of the university extension movement, which enabled audiences around the UK to hear what some of its lecturers had to say on a wide range of topics. The OpenSpires project is the 21st century equivalent, though, with the benefit of the web, the audiences are now global and we hope even more diverse. It is a pleasure to contribute to this important venture, which is opening up Oxford like never before”.(McDonald, n.d.)
University of Oxford OER
41http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/resources/index.html#posters
http://www.slideshare.net/tbirdcymru/itunes-u-corporate-channel-of-free-educational-resources
Great Writers Inspire
http://writersinspire.org/
What could you do with the Oxford Creative Commons podcast content?
OpenSpires in FLAX
Mining Oxford podcasts
Mining & linking key collocations
Language Teachers: OER creators, users, re-mixers and publishers
Developing podcast activities in FLAX
Close exercises in FLAX
YouTube in FLAX
Scrambled sentences in FLAX
Drag ‘n’ Drop exercises in FLAX
Please register with FLAX to build your own collections!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dopey/6273168640/
Thank you
Email: [email protected]; [email protected] FLAX Language: flax.nzdl.org; Twitter: @AlannahFitz
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