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Grammar TeachingData Driven Learning

Cindy 黃馨儀

Teach grammar?

1. Do you think grammar is important in language

learning?

2. Do you think teaching grammar is essential for

the Grade5~ Grade6 students in elementary

school?

3. How do you teach grammar to the G5 and G6

kids?2

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The Process of Data Driven Learning

語料檢索系統Concordancer

語料庫Corpus

文本Concordance

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語料檢索系統 Concordancer(Krieger)

(Barlow, 2002)

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語料庫 Corpus(Kilgariff (2009))

(Chambers 與 O’Riordan(2011))

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文本 Concordance

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The Process of Data Driven Learning (Johns)

識別Indentify

分類Classify

歸納Generalize

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The advantages of Data Driven Leaning(Willis, 1998)

1. The material is authentic.

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2. The corpus can provide a lot of related words or

phrases.(Chamber& O’Riordan)

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3. Students dominate the English learning process.(Yeh, Liou, & Li, 2007)

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4.Students have to draw a conclusion from the

information they get.(Yeh Liou & Li, 2007)

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5. Teachers will provide the material according to the

students’ abilities.

(Chambers & O’Riordan, 2011)

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The application of Data Driven Learning

1.For the word, phrase and sentences ： Students can

discover the different meaning or various usage.

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2. Tono(2009) thinks the Data Driven Learning should

start from the most common grammar.

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3. Dada Driven Learning can be used to build the test

corpus.

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The Disadvantages of Data Driven Learning

1. The material might be very hard.

→Teacher should select the material first.

(Krieger, 2003)

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2.The classroom hardware limitation.

→Make the material into a syllabus.

(Chambers & O'Riordan, 2011)

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3. The corpus can be very huge.

→Using Excel to select the words.

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The Related Research

1. Grammar Teaching (Hadley, 2002)

2. Krashen(1981) Grammar should learn from the

natural environment.