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Week 3 lecture 5 Words, Vocabulary, Text and Definitions Website of the day • Bots are simple examples of AI ( Artificial Intelligence) http://mybot.ai.com/mybot.aspx?id=u@G@LLQUDbk0/BbOR usKORyZ5TTF9w1nVfYG0HVdeUk= How could you a bot for language learning? Clarify from last lesson • Jumping from teaching/learning approach to “learning theory” that underpins it • Constructivism ( theory about how we learn) • Behaviourism ( theory about how we learn) • Audio lingualism ( approach to teaching/learning) • Task based learning ( approach to teaching/learning) Words Clouds • Very popular tools • Take “text” reduce it, take out small words and focus on the key “meaning” words • Good example is wordsift • Reduces text • Focus on key words • Organises words • Concordance ( takes examples from text of how vocabulary is used) • Images • Visual Dictionary Element Word Sift • • • • • How could you use it in language teaching? Why is it useful? Other examples Wordlle.net http://www.tagxedo.com/ Dictionaries • There are a whole range of dictionaries on the internet. Here are a few interesting ones http://www.visuwords.com/ http://www.wordia.com/ http://www.vocabahead.com/ Fun with words • http://www.flickriver.com/ • http://www.gifup.com/ • http://labs.google.com/sets