Tom Cobb

Developer and main cheerleader for Lextutor - for all things data driven in language learning

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Good news! My article Meta-Anlysis of Data-Driven Learning was downloaded enough to be a #topcitedarticle in https://t.co/RWg8dL0llr.

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I had to upgrade the server to get this one to go!
The 8 million word BAWE (Brit Academic Written English) corpus, sorted by 30 sub-corpora.

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Under the tree at Lextutor.ca this Christmas:
(1) Coverage calculator for list in corpus (https://t.co/e4bbRgxh3p)
(2) Lemmatizer to join familizer (https://t.co/M7744Xa4pS)
(3) AWL subdivided by middle school subject areas (https://t.co/9MPVXeWHUB)
Enjoy!

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A new corpus for Lextutor - the world's 1st ever BIG simple-English corpus, 15 million. Thanks to Concordia Ss Clinton Hendry & Emily Sheepy

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Why do new software with all that great computer stuff to adapt to phones and pad? Vocab Size Test joins the club at https://t.co/XmfL5weZZj

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By popular demand! Lextutor Flashcard sets get short, unique URLs - no longer have to be fished out of a scrolling menu. Responding to users

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OK here are the promised Clickers, v.09 so much in need of feedback - at https://t.co/YPLaMI5ZyF . The essential tech to flip a classroom!

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New project for link on Lextutor next wk is Mobile Clickers. Quick quiz/survey with instant visual data assembly/show. Flip your classroom!

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Busy with a chapter on CALL for learning collocations, with examples from Lextutor. Anyone know of a recent review paper on this topic?

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Into math as a vocab issue? Check new ReactTime model (https://t.co/w6uzpTNTpV) re-doing deHaene expt on mental number comparisons (orange)

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@muranava rational cloze is when you choose which words to mask rather than computer. In this case multiwords

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@muranava

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Most asked Lextutor question is how all this reflects research. Good ex is new stuff + goes-with paper @ nword cloze https://t.co/Q8z6Zlssym

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@mrpottz @TESLOntario glad it's working for you John. A pleasure to make and more refines to come for sure

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The controversies paper I mentioned earlier out in RIFL with the complete contestant line up: Brace self then go to https://t.co/slX6mkw90n

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Hey vocab fans, get yourselves to London Ont. for tomorrow (Friday) where Stuart Webb has invited some name speakers for a mini-symposium

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@scottroydouglas @lextutor good news Scott! I trust you would tell me where they are wrong or insufficient. ALL are under permanent modif.!

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How do world leaders in pedagogical lexis celebrate the end of a brainy conference? A retreat on Fuji? Not so much

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Vocab@tokyo is steaming along! All the vocab greats and smalls powering big ideas into 15 min slots. Check my gig at https://t.co/darerFu3FJ

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A question about training TESL trainees to make their own corpora: Any of you done this? Know any teachers using self-made corpora? Thanks!