Four-step concordance procedure with a schema-activating pre-activity¶

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Description¶

The CPDL lesson pattern opened with a paired pre-activity in which "the activity aimed to activate the students’ pre -existing knowledge of over/above" by generating and comparing their own sentences, replicating a concordance task on their own output. The corpus work then followed four stages of Sinclair's procedure: "initiate, interpret, consolidate and report followed by a classroom discussion to help the learners to uncover the contexts for the different uses of the vertical prepositions". The pattern interleaves metalinguistic cognitive explanation with hands-on corpus discovery.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

Learners need prior DDL training in running and reading concordance queries
Polysemy network handouts are needed for the consolidation step

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

second-year Turkish university students of English

Learning Goals¶

distinguishing the prototypical and extended senses of polysemous prepositions

Claims¶

Ddl Cl Instruction Greater Gains Retention [+M]

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

Kilimci, A. (2017). Integrating cognitive linguistics insights into data-driven learning: teaching vertical prepositions. Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 13(2), 681-719. https://www.jlls.org

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`title`	`Four-step concordance procedure with a schema-activating pre-activity`
`description`	`The CPDL lesson pattern opened with a paired pre-activity in which "the activity aimed to activate the students’ pre -existing knowledge of over/above" by generating and comparing their own sentences, replicating a co...`
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