In this lecture , we're going to talk about different word forms and the different
collocations that go with these words forms. So, one of the things that you might
have noticed is that sometimes you'll have a word with one collocation for
example if I give you the sentence, a simple sentence
"Marketing impacts the number of sales." Let's focus on this word "impacts" So, if we
look at the word "impacts" what follows this verb "impact" is a noun. However, if I
give you another sentence using "impact" in a different word form, the
collocation will change.
The word "impact"in this sentence, "impact" is a noun, and we have this collocation "of".
So, the point is that depending on the word form the collocation that goes with
that word form changes. This week what you guys will be doing is you guys will
be practicing looking for the different word forms of one word from
the academic word list and looking for the collocations that go with these
different word forms. So what you're going to need for this activity he is the UEFAP
vocabulary website, and you'll also need to refer to the Corpus of Contemporary
American English (COCA) so we're going to try to do this using the word "analyze." So,
the first thing we need to do is find different word forms of the word
"analyze," so from your practice with the vocabulary journals, you know that we go to using
English for Academic Purposes, we scroll down and look for the word "analyze" ok
so here's the word "analyze". We have a whole bunch of different forms, so all
you need to do is choose three. You can do more if you like, but for the
assignment, this week's word forms and collocation assignment all you need to do is
choose three of them. So, I'm gonna try I'm goint to choose "analyze", "analysis" and
"analytical".
"Analyze" is a verb, "Analysis" is a noun, and "analytical" is an adjective, so that's
the first part. The next thing you need to do is go to the Corpus of Contemporary
American English, the COCA. You guys should be already familiar with this. You log in. I've
already logged in. You're going to type in the first word which is "analyze" and we're going
to look for some collocations. So,we're going to set collocates to 0 before and 1 after and
hit search. Ok, so we'll go with the top two or three collocations, so one of the
collocations is "their".
"Analyze their "another is "analyze what" and another one is "analyzed data", so I'm
going to write all three collocations for the word form "analyze."
Ok, and now what I want to do is if we want to be more specific
we can look for one word before the word "analyze". Hit search, and we come up with
2. Two is, look at this number right here, is a very high frequency. So, I'm going to type in "to"
before all of these "to analyze their" "to analyze what", "to analyze data" Ok the
next thing to do is come up with an original sentence using one of these
three collocations. You can make up the sentence yourself, but you want it to be . . .
you want to use a collocation number one. Number two, you want to make sure that the language
you use is formal and academic, so I'm going to type a sentence. Again you have to make it up
yourself. Don't look in any dictionary or any website. "The students were asked
to analyze their
data from the survey that they conducted." Ok, so we have the we have
the collocation right here.
I'm going to highlight it. Okay so that's all you need to do. You write one sentence. The next
thing you do is go to the next word form which is "analysis" and of course we go back
to the Corpus of contemporary American English change this to "analysis." We're
going to look for one word after the word "analysis". Search, and it looks like
the most common one is "of", "analysis of" also "analysis revealed" and "analysis
showed". You can put in all three of these, but the most common one is going to be
"of", so we'll go back to our exercise and type in "analysis of", "analysis revealed"
and "analysis showed." Go back to the corpus of contemporary American English.
Change this to one word before "analysis" let's see what we can find out, so it looks
like "an analysis," "data analysis," "factor analysis." We'll just go with "an analysis"
for right now. So, we can put "An analysis of", "an analysis revealed" and "an analysis showe". So, you
can see that by using the COCA, you can figure out the pieces that fit around
the word, and again this is how native speakers use the words with these
collocations. And, again we're going to write a sentence for "an analysis of," "an
analysis revealed" whichever one you want to use. You can use any of the three
collocations that you found. I'm going to use the first one "analysis of"
and again you write an original sentence. Ok, so, highlight the
collocation. Ok, so my sentence is "The students were asked to conduct an analysis of the
data." So you can see how the word "analysis" in the noun form is used with
the collocation and then you do the same thing with "analytical". Find three
different collocations with your word with the correct word form and then write
another sentence. When you go to the document called word forms collocations
practice which is on e-companion (CANVAS now!), you'll be doing exactly this, and you'll see
this exact same model exercise as an example on that exercise document.