Gunma JALT:

Students as Editors: Using Online Concordancers

Date: Sunday, September 30th, 2007 Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Speaker: Stephen Jennings

Description:
This workshop will show how students are able to edit their written work after some language awareness activities and online concordance familiarity. Workshop participants will take part in the following steps:
1. Awareness of collocations (using an animated cartoon story);
2. Online corpus familiarization (using the online Collins Concordance Sampler);
3. Discussion of samples of students?f written work and feedback to be given;
4. Editing written work by using online concordance;
5. General discussion.

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

Cost: JALT Members: free
Non-members: 1000 yen

Venue: Maebashi Kyoai Gakuen College, 1154-4 Koyahara-machi, Maebashi, Gunma (tel: 027-266-7575)

Location: Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan

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