Corpus-aided Teacher Training Programme

You can explore training materials and recordings of an online flipped corpus-aided spoken English training programme held in Jan-Apr, 2022 at The Education University of Hong Kong. The programme helped pre- and in-service teachers learn about an innovative corpus-aided approach. All the training materials and recordings of the programme are accessible.

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Part I. About the IELTS speaking test

Part II. The corpus

Part III. Learning website

 

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E-book (read-only version | downloadable PDF )

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Part I. What does Fluency and Coherence (FC) mean?

Part II. What are the features of a high-band performance?

Part III. Pausing in the speech.

Part IV. How to use discourse markers and connectives?

 

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E-book (read-only version | downloadable PDF )

Suggested Answers

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Part I. What does Lexical Resource (LR) mean?

Part II. What are the features of a high-band performance?

Part III. How to avoid inappropriate word choice and collocations?

 

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E-book (read-only version | downloadable PDF )

Suggested Answers

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Part I. What does Grammatical Range and Accuracy (GA) mean?

Part II. What are the features of a high-band performance?

Part III. How to avoid common grammar mistakes?

 

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E-book (read-only version | downloadable PDF )

Suggested Answers

Glossary of grammar terminologies

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Part I. What does Pronunciation (PN) mean?

Part II. What are the features of a high-band performance?

Part III. How to avoid common segmental features?

 

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E-book (read-only version | downloadable PDF )

Suggested Answers

 

Common linguistic features of  learners with  different English proficiency levels 

We summarized salient linguistic features of learners mainly from Hong Kong and mainland China based on data from the corpus. The features from four aspects (fluency and coherence, lexical resource, grammatical range and accuracy, and pronunciation) are quite different among speakers with different IELTS speaking band scores. English teachers are strongly encouraged to know their students' difficulties in English speaking, set their focus on teaching speaking and design teaching materials based on our summary.