Course-Specific Corpora in the Classroom: A News Media English Class in Taiwan
Course-Specific Corpora in the Classroom: A News Media English Class in Taiwan
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课堂上的特定课程语料库：台湾新闻媒体英语课
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2004
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Limin Liu
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Shiau;Limin Liu
本研究旨在探讨如何从一个特定的课程语料库中构建一个具有数据驱动学习优势的学习工具，并将其整合到新闻媒体英语课堂中。鉴于新闻媒体英语课程在一些亚洲国家的流行，以及近年来教师需要建立更小更专业的语料库来满足特定的教学目标，我们开发了一个在线系统来辅助英语新闻的教学和阅读，并在台湾的一个大学新闻媒体英语课堂上使用。设计并实施了一个包含该系统的课程。本课程旨在教授新闻故事的语篇特征，提高英语水平。课后，通过问卷调查获得学生对使用该系统的反应。问卷调查的结果表明，将学习工具纳入新闻媒体英语课堂沿着的系统设计的建议，总体上是积极的反应。本文的结论与未来使用的系统和可能的方法来改善类似目的的系统的设计的影响。
This study explores the feasibility of constructing a learning tool with the benefits of data-driven learning from a course-specific corpus and integrating it into a news media English class. Given the popularity of news media English classes in some Asian countries and the call in recent years for instructors to construct smaller and more specialized corpora to meet specific instructional objectives, an on-line system for assisting teaching and reading of English news was developed and used in a university-level news media English class in Taiwan. A lesson incorporating the system was designed and implemented. The lesson aimed at teaching the discourse features of news stories and improving English in general. After the lesson, students’ responses to using the system were obtained by a questionnaire survey. Results of the questionnaire survey indicated an overall positive response to incorporating the learning tool into a news media English class along with suggestions for system design. The paper concludes with implications for future use of the system and possible ways to improve the design of systems for similar purposes.