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I have learned from this activity how I can find the new wasy of analyzing an unknown words that I can face with while reading a text given.  The new ways called, concordance, multi-concordance, vocabulary profiling, key words output, useing wordle to get the most frequent words in a given text and etc.  I can multiply my strategy towards my teaching profession by using these application as they give me chance to get better inforation from them.  These activities supply pratical ideas and pratical ways for both me as both student and teacher candidate.  I think it is important to not stuck with google, but finding a new ways of beneficial sources that will enhance both teaching and learning process

Multiple-concordance application help students to discover the lexico-grammar of the word in this way: when they are thought to use the www.lextutor.ca. they will be able to see the colomn called teacher where concordance and multiple concordance applications there are.  when they click the multiple-concordance and type the word that they would like to learn its lexico-grammar they will see that a new page opens and shows how the word that they are looking for usedn in different sentences as in the following link: http://conc.lextutor.ca/concordancers/multi/conc.pl?inputs=technology&this_corp=bnc_spoken.txt&limit=12&format=plain&wid=small&dico=Eng_Eng I think students should need special training as this new type of site would challnge them while they are trying to use applications in ti. I also as a student wouldn't be aware of it as long as I wasn't trainde in CTE319 coure, becaue I haven' seen or heard this type site that has all these funtions ...

I think concordance useful in seeing words in a contex in a text.  Let's suppose that I found difficulty in understanding the meaning of technology in a given text when I was reding it.  By using the application "concordance" I can type the word or words one by one in a given blank and click the submit button, then it will show me how the word technology is used in different context as it will show you in the following link: www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/concord_e.html  As the site doesn't lead yout to the link that takes you up the result of my concordance application I have past the link to show you how I reach the concordance.  Briefly, as soon as I reach this site after clicking on this link I wrote the word that I gave it as example to you and then go a liltle bit above and click the get concordance button on the right below side.  This led me to find a lot of use of the word technology.

The differences that I found in when using word cloud or vocabulary profiling were that: word cloud helped me a lot to not waste time to read long articles; instead, it made me able to learn what is it about by just looking the more frequent words that were used in that text.  Word Cloud application in a way brough me the summary of the text that I was responsible to read.  When it comes to the Vocabulary Profiling it was more complex and equipted with its use.  For example, when I paste the article in the blanket  and then clik go, I was be able to get the most frequent words through the least frequent ones, but I was also be able to find a page in Vocabulary Profiling that omits the key words from the text and put them above and it allows you to find the synonyms of it by clicking the arrow beside the blankets.  I can gain advantage of it when I prepare any vocabulary activities for my class.

I first would distribute a  small piece of paper filled with those words or more that I have selected for them to make them first focus on them.  After they took a look, I would distribute the article to them to read  in 30 minutes and then I would tell them while they are reading, to higlight the words that they have read beforehand they read the article.  After they finished reading I would ask them why I put the focus on these sepecific words, what can be the importance of these words for us and I would like to ask them to summarize the text by making a connection to the words that were given to them from the very begining of the activity.  My aim by doing like this would  be make my students to specific the frequent words that they face with in the article and not to focus each word through reading because they don't have to know each word in a text.  All they need to do is try to find the key words that will help them through reading it so they wi...

I would use the words suh as " moblie, technology, affect, university, academy, students, culture, research, educate, grow and etc .  These words were used in the artcle that I have chosen for pre-intermediate class to teach.  The reason why I chose these specific words in the text is I believe that they will help my students a lot to understand the text without starting reading it.   These word will give shape in their minds a frame regarding with the article.  http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/04/business/mobilology-mobile-university-revolution/index.html?iid=article_sidebar  http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/04/business/mobilology-mobile-university-revolution/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

I think a vocabulary profiler likes prism to vary the commonness of the words that are in a given text.  This will shows how often the words are being used according to their colors.  I think that same words will not have always the same colors because the more its context changes the more it becomes either most common or less common.  For example, as the sun, the world, the moon belongs to geographic text, these are not seen in a mathematical texts so their being frequency will change according to what type of context they are being used.

I think nothing surprised me actually but when we think about the word frequency vary or not I can say yes it varies.  Tthe types of English e.g American versus British English depends on which language variables (phonetic, semantic,syntactic,lexical) changed in what conditions.  For example, Americans uses Soccer instead of saying football it has semantic meaning but the use of this word changed.

I think the native speakers are the ones that make the language in a full sense to live can score better results from such a test.  This is in my opinion because the fact that native speakers are born in that language so it will be more easy to figure out the words whether can be used frequently or not.  I think it depends on how much you are exposed to the use of the words.  Being native or non-native is not the representation of how much you are talented in guessing the most frequently used words.

I think distributing word list is acceptable for me but I would like to lighten my students to use dictionaries either(hard-copy) or electronic so that they will not only find the words meaning, but also they will find words' part of speech, their uses of in different context.  In this case the word list without giving more information about words in this sense seems more limited.

Why not we explicitly focus on learning vocabulary?  We as teacher candidate prepare specific vocabulary activities for the class so that we increase their vocabulary capacity.  The more they learn new words and get habit to use them in their lives the better they can adjust their use of vocabulary in an appropriate way.  Decontextualization  of vocabulary is may not possible every time because there will be the words that they can't figure out just by looking at once so they will need the context.

Students won't learn the common words naturally because the need to learn them is on the other hand is to communicate.

I think we as especially foreign language students that deals with the language itself, should try to use those new words frequently so that it becomes a habit after a while and then, as a result the use of the new words become frequent in communicating.  For teachers, it is also the same according to me as learning doesn't end it is a process throughout the life.  We built up our knowledge even if we are young or old. Therefore, teachers should develop their sense of frequency in terms of teaching.

Our course books don't include such activities now but as I have studied at Prep. School there were such activities to enhance our vocabulary capacity.  when I guess mostly I fail because of the unpredictable words.

For students it is quite often to guess the meaning of the unknown words because it is not only related with the words' meaning but it is also related with the context where they are being used.  It happens to me, for example, the test that I took yesterday which is called "the most common 10.000 words" challenged me in terms of choosing the appropriate words even they weren't used in long long sentence.