Vol. 4 Issue 6 – Research Paper: ‘Corpus-Based Approach Toward Teaching Collocation of Synonyms’ by Aliakbar Jafarpour, Mahmood Hashemian & Sepideh Alipour

The study was aimed at providing more insights on the application of the corpus-based approach. The objectives of the study were to compare its learning effects with the conventional teaching method's effects on collocations of synonyms. The study was conducted with two groups of L2 learners. One group was randomly assigned to be the experimental group studying with the corpus-based approach whereas the other represented the comparison group studying with the conventional teaching method. The learners from both groups were matched in pairs according to their language proficiency and collocation knowledge on the pretest. During the study, the experimental group was trained through paper-based and hands-on activities to deal with the concordance information in the corpus whereas the comparison group was taught collocations of synonyms through conventional activities such as explicit teaching. The instruments for collecting data included the pretest, posttest, prewriting and postwriting.

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ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue 5

Many non-native speakers feel uneasy teaching their students English pronunciation. This workshop is designed to use free software and information from the Internet to help teachers improve their students' pronunciation. Workshop led by Colin Large, English Language Fellow

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Vol. 4 Issue 5. – National Workshop on Teaching Vocabulary and Pronunciation at the Tertiary Level, February 10, Sathyabama University, India

The Department of English conducts workshops with experts in the area of ELT to equip the teachers with changing trends in language teaching methodologies on a regular basis. Although the workshop is meant for teachers in the area of English for Science and Technology, it may be useful to the scholars and also to the students of ELT. Research scholars doing experimental studies may also benefit by learning the techniques in teaching vocabulary and pronunciation.

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