COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY

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COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY -

• what it can and cannot do in the study of
  language and literature

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• TEACHING METHODOLOGY
• INFORMATION RETRIEVAL DISTRIBUTION
• SOFTWARE FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES

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• TEACHING METHODOLOGY
• Increasing availability of information
• Less dependence on local sources of information
• Change in focus from teaching to learning
• Change in type of communication between teacher
  and student
• Changes in teaching/learning needs
• Life long learning
• Teaching/learning HOW TO LEARN

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• Teaching in the classroom- progress in use of
  cognitive abilities
• Teacher only
• Teacher
• Black/white/green board
• Overhead Projector
• Video
• Power Point
• Computers

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• Beyond the classroom
• The sebenta
• Value gt teacher accountable for knowledge
• Limitations gt local scale
• Bibliography
• Value gt teacher and student responsible for
  search for knowledge
• Limitations gt local libraries and bookshops
• Side-effect gt teacher loses confidence in own
  knowledge

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• Open and Distance Learning (ODL)
• Value gt teacher accountable for providing
  knowledge
• acquirable locally
• acquirable on international scale
• Limitations
• existing material
• teachers knowledge of existing material
• Side-effect
• Lessons available locally and internationally
• incoming
• outgoing

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• Open and Distance Learning (ODL)
• This is not the same as Open University
• Anyone who wishes to put in the necessary time
  can access lessons on-line, at any time of the
  day or night
• Anyone who wishes to put in the necessary time
  can put lessons on-line , at any time of the day
  or night
• There are plenty of courses on-line
• most of them have to be paid for
• some are free
• Students and teachers can communicate with each
  other easily
• Please note that the Reitoria is doing its best
  to promote ODL

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• Study and homework
• Traditional
• Set books
• Photocopies
• Library
• Local Bookshop
• Limited to local availability
• Additional
• On-line bookshops
• CD-ROMs
• Internet
• Availability on international scale

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• INFORMATION RETRIEVAL DISTRIBUTION
• RETRIEVAL
• On-line bookstores, e.g.
• http//www.amazon.com/
• http//www.blackwells.co.uk/
• Direct links to publishers, e.g.
• http//www.benjamins.nl/
• Newspapers on-line
• over 2000 newspapers

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• Journals on-line
• free and by subscription
• Books, articles and conference proceedings
  on-line
• Reference material
• dictionaries
• encylopedias
• databases (e.g. EURODICAUTOM)
• Resource material
• ready made lessons
• bibliographies
• Information on a multitude of subjects

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• RETRIEVAL DISTRIBUTION
• Mailing lists and E-mail
• Interactive communication with others
• Easier teacherlt gtstudent communication
• International communication
• Virtual mobility
• Video-conferencing
• On-line lessons and discussions
• Making Web pages
• Teachers can create reference material for their
  students
• Students can publish their work on-line

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• SOFTWARE FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
• Electronic corpora
• the whole Web - http//webcorp.connect.org.uk/
• general purpose
• representative of many registers
• special purpose
• restricted registers - literary, scientific,
  technical, etc
• specially designed corpora - e.g. telephone
  conversations, doctor/patient communication,
• Text Analysis Software
• Translation software

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• Electronic corpora
• British National Corpus (BNC) - 300 million words
  on-line /100 million on CD-ROM
• International Corpus of English (ICE)- 1 million
  fully parsed words
• International Corpus of Learners English (ICLE)
• European Language Resources Association (ELRA) -
  collection of corpora in many languages
• ICAME - CD-ROM of several corpora
• Gutenberg project and On-Line Book Page
  -thousands of literary texts
• Oxford University Computing Service - a wide
  variety of texts for research purposes

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• Text Analysis Software
• Concordancers
• MICROCONCORD
• WORDSMITH (FLUP has this software)
• Word Lists
• Concordancer
• Text Alinger / Viewer
• PARACONCORD for parallel texts
• Tagging - parts of speech
• Cobuild will do short texts for free on-line
• Parsing
• ICE fully parsed

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• Translation Software
• Machine Translation
• SYSTRAN
• available as programme
• on-line via Alta Vista at http//babelfish.com
• GLOBALINK, METAL etc.
• Translation software
• TRADOS, TRANSIT, DÉJÁ VU etc
• Translation memories
• Terminology databases
• Alignment programmes

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• APPLICATIONS
• Teacher Training
• Trainee Teachers need to learn how to use
  computer technology for teaching and learning
  processes
• Language teaching and learning - CALL
• Translator Training
• Research into
• Language
• Linguistics
• Literature
• Culture
• ETC.

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• CALL
• See Warschauer, M. (1996). Computer-assisted
  language learning An introduction. In S. Fotos
  (Ed.), (pp. 3-20). Tokyo Logos International.
• Behavioristic CALL
• Communicative CALL
• Steps toward Integrative CALL Multimedia
• Steps toward Integrative CALL The Internet
• Experiments in virtual mobility like the Open to
  Europe project
• Open and Distance Learning

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• RESEARCH INTO
• Language and Language Teaching
• Internet and mailing lists - essential for
  retrieval and distribution of information
• Linguistics
• Corpora now essential for all serious linguistic
  research
• Literature
• Text analysis software indispensable for rigorous
  analysis of texts
• Internet and mailing lists - essential for
  retrieval and distribution of information
• Culture
• Internet and mailing lists - essential for
  retrieval and distribution of information

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• TRANSLATOR TRAINING
• The LETRAC project found that, if translator
  training institutions wish to prepare their
  students to work in the real world, it is
  essential they should learn about
• Introduction to Information Technology
• Desk Top Publishing
• Telecommunications and Internet
• Translation Specific software
• and advisable that they study
• Corpus Linguistics
• Machine Translation
• Computational Linguistics

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• COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY - FLUP
• Hardware
• Library on-line
• PCs connected to Internet and local server in
• most gabinetes
• Institutes
• 3 Computers Rooms on 4th floor - 15, 8, 12
  PCs3 Macs
• Sala de Tradução 2.9 - 8 PCs
• Centro Leonardo Coimbra - 10 PCs
• CLC organises courses on Internet, Office etc
• Scanners
• Multimedia projectors

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• Software
• Existing
• Windows NT and 2000
• Microsoft Office
• Panda Anti-Virus
• Internet Explorer
• SPSS
• WORDSMITH
• Large quantities of newspaper text
• literary texts
• TRADOS
• ETC

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• Requested
• Access to BNC
• ICAME CD-ROM
• TRANSIT
• Déjà Vu
• Possible with general co-operation
• Collection of literary texts
• Collection of texts for study purposes
• Collection of general and specialised corpora
• Collection of reference material
• Collection of ready-made teaching material

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• CD ROMs in FLUP Library - English
• Oxford English Dictionary
• The Encylopedia Britannica
• The English Poetry Full-Text Poetry Database
• The Times and Sunday Times
• The Guardian
• Electronic Management Research Library
• CD-ROM of twenty Dictionaries
• Various Dictionaries by Collins, O.U.P and
  Longmans
• Encarta
• Hutchinsons Multimedia Encyclopedia
• ETC

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• CD ROMs in FLUP Library - Portuguese
• História de Portugal
• Bibliografia Nacional Portuguesa
• Mediateca do Século XX
• Fernando Pessoa
• Luís de Camões
• Vários encyclopedias, dicionários e gramáticas em
  Português
• CD ROMs in FLUP Library - General
• Museums, Art Galleries, Artists, Cities,
  Countries
• ETC.

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• WHAT COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
• CAN DO
• Facilitate the teaching / learning process
• Provide tools for human imagination and
  creativity
• Offer links to an international world of
  information
• Provide the tools for more precise, less
  impressionistic research
• Contribute to a more professional approach by
  teachers, translators and others in the language
  industries

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• WHAT COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
• CANNOT DO
• Work without input from human beings
• Help those determined to maintain the status quo
  in the teaching and learning processes
• Maintain the education for an élite mentality