!! 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 [[https://accountservices.passport.net/ppnetworkhome.srf?lc=1041|Windows live ID]]
      choose assignment ([[http://k.excite.co.jp/hp/u/eibei|keitai HP]] or [[http://www2.kumagaku.ac.jp/teacher/~judy/classes/c+e/newsletter.doc|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 ([[http://www.habbo.jp|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 [[http://www.screenplay.co.jp/kensaku/kensaku.cgi?action=search_more|movies]] and [[ http://uzu.ias.tokushima-u.ac.jp/staff/nakasima/skwics.html|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