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Discuss several different types of online/app dictionaries, show examples of
when you would use each different one (i.e. learners, visual, collocation)
Discuss and show examples of how Concordances can be used by a teacher.
Include in your discussion:
o How a teacher might use a concordance in a lesson plan
o What and how a corpus is used
o What collocations are
o Define the parameters you used to set up a search and show the
results.
Share your opinion of using a machine translator as a tool for learning
English. Support your answer with examples of translations you have put
through a machine.

Worksheet
Dictionaries

are useful tools in learning a language. I still frequently refer to a

dictionary to help me learn my native language of English better. For example, I just
learned the difference between setup and set up. Now dictionaries dont only come
as books, but also as electronic gadgets, software, online resources, and even as
apps to be loaded on your cell phone.
Some

Internet Dictionaries I like:

http://www.learnersdictionary.com/
http://www.visuwords.com/fullscreen/
http://wordweb.info/ (download the free software)

List several online dictionaries and give an example entry of a word you
looked up.

Dictionary
Ex. Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/
technology
noun
1. the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical
means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing
upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure
science.
2. the terminology of an art, science, etc.; technical nomenclature.
3. a technological process, invention, method, or the like.
4. the sum of the ways in which social groups provide themselves with the
material objects of their civilization.
Ex. Snappy Words Visual Dictionary http://www.snappywords.com/

Technology

Dictionary 1 (your choice)

-

Merriam-webster.com (http://www.merriam-webster.com/)
Love (noun)
A feeling of strong or constant affection for a person.
Attraction that includes sexual desire. The strong affection felt by people who
have a romantic relationship.
A person you love in a romantic way

Dictionary 2 (your choice)

- Thefreedictionary.com (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/)
- Excited (adjective)
- Being in a state of excitement; emotionally aroused; stirred
- Physics being at an energy level higher than the ground
state.

Dictionary 3 (your choice)

-

The Longman dictionary (http://www.ldoceonline.com/)

Attract (verb)
To make someone interested in something, or make them want to take part in
something
To feel that you like someone and want to have a sexual relationship with
them
To make someone like or admire something or feel romantically interested in
someone
To make someone or something move towards another thing

Search for an Online Collocation Dictionary.

Dictionary 4 (your choice)

-

Oxford colocation dictionary (http://oxforddictionary.so8848.com/search?

word=love)
Love (adj)
Deep, great, overwhelming, passionate her deep love for him/ genuine, pure,
real, true, unconditional, abiding, eternal, undying.
(verb)
Feel, express, show, declare, profess
(noun)
Affair, life, letter, scene, song, story
(phrases)
An act of love, deeply/madly./

Concordancer
This lesson is designed to introduce you to concordancers, so you wont be shocked
when you go into much more detail in your TESOL 425 TESOL Vocabulary class. The
best way to learn about concordancers is through an internet search for them.
Search the internet for concordancers. Read articles about them and what they do.
What is a concordancer and why would a teacher want to use it. You might
want to narrow your search to ESL concordancer.
Answer: it is a computer program that automatically constructs a concordance. The
output of a concordancer may serve as input to a translation memory system for
computer-assisted translation, or as an early step in machine translation. A teacher
would want to use this program so that the students can be more understandable of
what is being discussed in class and it will also help a teacher elaborate more on
the hard vocabulary words for the students.

Search for various different online concordancers and use them. Show your results
below.
What online concordancers did you find?
Names and Links:
- Oxford collocation dictionary (http://oxforddictionary.so8848.com/)
- English collocation dictionary (http://www.ozdic.com/)
- Free online collocation dictionary (http://prowritingaid.com/free-onlinecollocations-dictionary.aspx)
- Collocation- English grammar today (https://search.1and1.com/find?
q=dictionary
%20collocation&ae=10000&at=4&lang=en&origin=15015&mkt=us&mty=b
&kwd=dictionary%20collocation&qenc=utf8&ifr=1&ad=semA&an=yahoos&net=y&cre=8861449092&kwid=172141200
62&dev=c)
Did you find http://www.just-the-word.com/ ?
- Yes
What words did you search for? (i.e. hair, marriage, success) What corpus
did you use? How did you sort your results? Did your search include the
words family? Show your results.
Word: love
Corpus: brown
Results (10 lines): 001.
d to her, while they are far more restrained than those of " LOVE in Dian's La
p", show no great technical advance over th
002.
here in the darkness, begging this man to make love to me. " LOVE me
, Johnnie". "I will, kitten"! Outside, in the summert
003.
tting that we seek out whatever joy our union might bring. " LOVE me
"? "Uh-huh. Love you". "Always and always, Johnnie"?
004.
y which Divine Love becomes the most "fatal" allurement in " LOVE th
e Tempter". Of course, there were books about which n
005.
. ## As for me, I am holding in reserve two huge puzzles (I LOVE puz
zles) to put together when time hangs heavy on my ha
006.
Hamrick. His recent experience in motor car advertising, a LOVE fo
r cars of themselves, the existence of A- Z's useless
007.
was intimate, thoughtful, and a trifle shy. His new poem, a LOVE poe
m, told of a young husband leading his wife upstairs

008.

chnique by which a poet indulged in all kinds of talk about LOVE an

d anger and even in something like "expressions" of t

009.
answer to that is, I am a suffering FrancoIrishman. We all LOVE to suffer, but some of us love to suffer more than othe
010.
e motel, a thousand crickets serenaded us. "Will you always LOVE me
this way"? "Uh huh. Always". "Mmm". And I snuggled c

Word: teacher
Corpus: brown
Results (10 lines): 001.

ion in administrative decision-

making) noted that the term " TEACHER-employee" (as opposed to, e.g., "mainten
ance employe
002.
ate in his contact with Prof. J. G. L. Manthey (17691842), TEACHER of chemistry, who, in addition to his academic chair
003.
camps- those for or against pupil assignment. _ISSUE NO. 2. TEACHER
ASSIGNMENT IN ORDER TO DESEGREGATE._ In large cities
004.
forgive New England for rejecting all complicity". Being a TEACHER
of American literature, I remembered Whittier's "Mas
005.
imitating the grand styles of the authors recommended by a TEACHER
in whose special, after-school class I was enrolled.
006.
ars ago a middle western college circulated a request for a TEACHER
of interior design. At the end of its letter was the
007.
he most impressive testimony to Schnabel's distinction as a TEACHER
is reflected by the individuality which marks each s
008.
n have I realized and felt the attitude and experience of a TEACHER
. The United States is always ready to participate wi
009.
om the Orkney Isles. Reared in England, she studied to be a TEACHER
, earned several scholarships and was graduated with
010.
st to people of another race within the school namely, to a TEACHER
of another race. We can argue that where residence m

Word: exhausted
Corpus: brown

Results (10 lines): 001.

ot questioned why. The women said they had seen him wave an EXHAUSTED farewell
; but he might have been shooing away the
002.
to a solitary and difficult existence. Beaten, bruised and EXHAUSTE
D, he pursues the elusive killer through the demi-mo
003.
as duty he would perform, though it cost him acute pain and EXHAUSTE
D him by the age of fifty. Parker could weep- and he
004.
fessors ... when the game and its probable outcome has been EXHAUSTE
D ... that does it. #MIDDLE-AGED SPREAD# By then one
005.
red. It follows, then, provided the possibilities have been EXHAUSTE
D, that the only real alternative is the general vie
006.
isions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity EXHAUSTE
D him once more, so that he was compelled to spend t
007.
you more virile: the thought of strenuous activity left him EXHAUSTE
D. Perhaps golf, with a fashionable companion- but h
008.
seconds as well as tie in new bobbins as the running end is EXHAUSTE
D. Because the bobin-to-cone winding process is a re
009.
der the VA home loan guaranty program seems to have largely EXHAUSTE
D itself. Indeed, the failure of home-building as a
010.
n. It sometimes ended in deathlike trances with many lying EXHAUSTED and panting on chair and floor. To most
of those w

Collocations are words that are grouped together or normally used together. For
example, if you looked up the word interested you would notice that it is often
followed by the word in.
Look at your results from the words you selected above. Can you notice
any collocations? In other words, is the word you chose often preceded or
followed by a specific word?
Your Collocation Findings:

All these concordancers are cool, but why not just use Google to search for your
word and use the web as your corpus?

Use Google to search for one of your words you ran through a
concordancer. What did you find out?
Findings: you should search many other sites and dictionaries to find all
concordance.

If you wanted to find out how Mormons use a particular word (for
example: sealed) which concordance or corpus would you use?
Findings: LDS.org

Note:
MonoConc is a piece of concordancer software that at one time was downloadable
for free if it was used for research. Ive included it as part of your materials. Try it
out. When the program opens you wont see much of anything. Youll need to go
under file and load a corpus (any .txt file will do). Once you have a corpus, then you
can do searches to see how the word is used within that corpus.
The nice thing about MonoConc is that you can load your own corpus. You just need
to save your corpus as a .txt (text) file before you can load it.
MonoConc Link (found in the LC Share folder)

Translators

(Bilingual Dictionaries)
In the old days, one had to use a bilingual dictionary when doing translation work.
Now there are several online resources that can translate not only words, but whole
phrases or sentences. Even Microsoft Word has a translate function.
Use an electronic translator to translate these following sentences into
English.
Spanish: Mis alumnos son los mejores estudiantes en todo el mundo.

English Translation: my students are the best students

worldwide.
French: Mon chien mang mes devoirs.

English Translation: my dog ate my homework

Hebrew: ?

English Translation: Where can I buy this book?

Russian: .

English Translation: Brother Christensen is my favorite

teacher.
Chinese (Taiwan):

English Translation: Red sports car on the road very quickly.

Chinese (PRC):

English Translation: When I was young when I fell in love with

the girl next door.
Japanese: Brother Wyman makes very hard tests. (Sorry, too hard for the translator
programs. Can you find one that works?)

Japanese Translation:

Korean: .

English Translation: I want to go to school in Hawaii.

Tai:
hot

English Translation: I need to drink water because food is

spicy hot.
Tongan: Oku ou fia kai ia.

English Translation: I want to eat.

Do you think translator programs have a place in the L2 classroom?
Explain.

Answer: yes!
- Translator programs is very useful in L2 classroom because
it is one of the useful tools for a L2 learner to learn the
English vocabularies and be able to find out many ways how
to use the vocabs in everyday life. It will play a great effect
on a L2 student life to understand and comprehend
everything in the classroom.

Answers

(page color):

orange

Spanish: My students are the best students in the whole world.

French: My dog ate my homework.
Hebrew: Where can I buy this book?
Russian: Brother Christensen is my favorite teacher.
Chinese (Taiwan): The red sports car drove down the road very fast.
Chinese (PRC): When I was young, I was in love with the girl next door.
Japanese: Brother Wyman makes very hard tests.
Korean: I want to go to school in Hawaii.
Tai: I need a drink of water because this food is spicy hot.
Tongan: Im hungry.