Welcome to Computers and English! Spring 2007

introductory questions

Here is your syllabus:

APRIL Computers and Communication I : Chat, Newsletter, Keitai Home page

 4-10 Intro to class and to powerpoint
      sign up for hotmail or Windows live ID
      choose assignment (keitai HP or Eibei Newsletter 1)
 4-17 Free class to work on presentation 1 
 4-24 POWERPOINT PRESENTATION 1

MAY Computers and Education

 5-1  Intro to computers and education -- (1) how to study using word (2) how to teach using ppt   
 5-8 Playing with hot potatoes -- how to make quizzes  
 5-15 Playing with MSN chat and MOOS (Habbo Hotel) --choose HP for presentation  
 5-22 Free class to work on presentation 2 
 5-29  POWERPOINT PRESENTATION 2

JUNE Computers and Research 

 6-5  Intro to corpus work  : search movies and newspapers
 6-12 Pick presentation  
 6-19 Free class to work on presentation 3 
 6-26  POWERPOINT PRESENTATION 3

JULY Computers and Communication II : Review

 7-3  Free class to work on presentation 4  
 7-10 POWERPOINT PRESENTATION 4

Flashcards

Review of online English sites in Hristova and Dragostinova 2004 p. 140

online testing

BNC British National Corpus

OED Oxford English Dictionary

translation sites -- which is best?

online journals and academic search engines

online journals

LEARNER CORPORA http://leo.meikai.ac.jp/~tono/

CORPORA AND ENGLISHES http://fccl.ksu.ru/winter.99/lang_typ/hassal/reldev.htm

EXPLANATION OF CORPUS WITH EXAMPLES http://www.engl.polyu.edu.hk/corpuslinguist/corpus.htm#7

Classwork: Learn to use concordance software

•Movie search site (映語犬サク) 

 http://www.screenplay.co.jp/kensaku/kensaku.cgi?action=search_more

•Newspaper search site 

 http://uzu.ias.tokushima-u.ac.jp/staff/nakasima/skwics.html

Powerpoint presentation: corpus study