Research question: In what ways can learning to use the Corpus of Contemporary American English improve first-year ESL college student awareness and use of collocations in academic writing?
par Pamela Bogart
1. Materials development
1.1. What is a collocation?
1.2. What can I find out in COCA?
1.2.1. Case-study findings from COCA w/screencasts
1.3. How will I use my findings?
2. Students: How will I use my findings?
2.1. Homework Schedule
2.2. Recording findings
2.2.1. Sample Wiki entries
2.2.2. A class collo-wiki
2.3. Editing my writing
3. Students: What can I find out in COCA?
3.1. Class activities
3.2. Online activitites
4. Data collection
4.1. See CTools data collection chart
4.2. 4 kinds of data
4.2.1. COCA Findings on the class collo-Wiki [GoogleDocs space]
4.2.2. Student writing
4.2.3. Surveys & focus groups