A corpus-driven error analysis of the oral and written production of Leaving Certificate Spanish learners

The Leaving Certificate (LC) is the national, standardised state examination in Ireland necessary for entry to third level education – this presents a massive, raw corpus of data with the potential to yield invaluable insight into the phenomena of learner interlanguage. With samples of official LC Spanish examination data, this project has compiled a digitised corpus of learner Spanish comprised of the written and oral production of 100 candidates. This corpus was then analysed using a specific investigative corpus technique, Computer-aided Error Analysis (CEA, Dagneaux et al, 1998). CEA is a powerful apparatus in that it greatly facilitates the quantification and analysis of a large learner corpus in digital format. The corpus was both compiled and analysed with the use of UAM Corpus Tool (O’Donnell 2013). This Tool allows for the recording of candidate-specific variables such as grade, examination level, task type and gender, therefore allowing for critical analysis of the corpus as one unit, as separate written and oral sub corpora and also of performance per task, level and gender. This is an interdisciplinary work combining aspects of Applied Linguistics, Learner Corpus Research and Foreign Language (FL) Learning. Beginning with a review of the context of FL learning in Ireland and Europe, I go on to discuss the disciplinary context and theoretical framework for this work and outline the methodology applied. I then perform detailed quantitative and qualitative analyses before going on to combine all research findings outlining principal conclusions. This investigation does not make a priori assumptions about the data set, the LC Spanish examination, the context of FLs or of any aspect of learner competence. It undertakes to provide the linguistic research community and the domain of Spanish language learning and pedagogy in Ireland with an empirical, descriptive profile of real learner performance, characterising learner difficulty.

Enriching feedback in the primary classroom : oral and written feedback from teachers and children.

Este manual se centra en el aspecto más eficaz de la evaluación formativa: la retroalimentación, sin embargo, es el elemento más cargado de una herencia de las malas prácticas y puntos de vista equivocados. Explica cómo hacer uso de los comentarios orales y escritos para promover el aprendizaje del niño en el aula de primaria. La retroalimentación en clase puede aumentar la autoestima, motivar y promover activamente el aprendizaje, o puede desmoralizar y alienar. La forma en que los alumnos puedan participar, conocer lo que se espera de ellos, si tienen, o no, el reconocimiento de lo que hacen, y cómo se valoran sus esfuerzos, son elementos básicos de una evaluación eficaz para el aprendizaje, no del aprendizaje, en el aula.

Syntactic development in the oral and written language of profoundly deaf adolescents

This paper reviews a study to investigate oral and written syntactic development of profoundly deaf adolescents.

The Use of Vocabulary in an Eighth Grade Mathematics Classroom: Improving Usage of Mathematics Vocabulary in Oral and Written Communication

In this action research study of my mathematics classroom of eighth grade students, I investigated the use of mathematics vocabulary by focusing on improving the usage of this vocabulary in both oral and written communication. I discovered oral communication tended to show more improvements compared to written communication done by the same group of students. As a result of this research, I plan to continue to focus my teaching on the use of mathematics vocabulary in an effort to help my students gain a greater understanding of the daily use of that vocabulary.

Oral and Written Communication in Classroom Mathematics

In this action research study of my classroom of sixth grade mathematics, I investigated the impact of an increase in student oral and written communication on student level of understanding and student self-confidence. I also investigated the changes in my teaching as I increased opportunities for student oral and written communication of mathematics. While I discovered that student level of understanding was not necessarily increased if written communications were increased, I did find that there seemed to be a rise in student level of self-confidence and understanding throughout the course of the research project due to an increase in oral communication. Additionally, my intentions as a teacher were to become less dominating as communication was increased, but the opposite occurred. As a result of this research, I plan to continue to allow oral discourse to take place in my classroom much like it has in the past.

Word-book of English spelling, oral and written. Designed to attain practical results in the acquisition of the ordinary English vocabulary, and to serve as an introduction to word-analysis.

Mode of access: Internet.

Suggested course of study in oral and written expression for elementary schools.

"Developed ... under the direction and guidance of Miss Helen Heffernan, chief, Division of elementary education and rural schools."--Foreword, p. iii.

The North American arithmetic : part second, uniting oral and written exercises, in corresponding chapters /

Includes index.

The North American arithmetic : part second, uniting oral and written exercises, in corresponding chapters /

At head of title: Emerson's second part.

The North American arithmetic : part second, uniting oral and written exercises, in corresponding chapters.

At head of title: Emerson's second part.

Genealogy of the Mercer-Garnett family of Essex county, Virginia. Supposed to be descended from the Garnetts of Lancashire, England. Comp. from original records, and from oral and written statements of members of the family.

Cover-title: Biographical sketch of Hon. James Mercer Garnett, of Elmwood, Essex County, Virginia.

A new complete arithmetic : uniting oral and written exercises /

Cover title: White's New complete arithmetic.

The North American arithmetic : part second, uniting oral and written exercises in corresponding chapters /

MS. date: Jan. 1, 1847.

Composition, oral and written.

Mode of access: Internet.