Termfinder - Jargon-busting and Concept-building an online Learning Tool

TermFinder is a new multimodal online learning
tool, designed to help beginning and international
students with technical concepts and terminology
that challenge them in many academic disciplines.
For each discipline (e.g. statistics, biology,
accountancy), a unit-specific termbank is built
collaboratively by specialist academic staff and
expert linguist-lexicographers. TermFinder users
benefit by intelligent software which can respond
to their queries both directly and laterally with
related terms, and display them graphically in
conceptual sets. For each headword the software
supports audiofiles of its pronunciation, and a
translation (into Chinese etc.) to assist those
whose first language is not English.
TEAM:
Macquarie University: Professor Pam Peters,
DrClaudiaOliveira;DrTheresaWinchester-
Seeto; Mr Adam Smith; Ms Yasmin Funk;
Dr Alan Jones; Associate Professor Peter Petocz;
Ms Jenny Middledorp; Dr Kehui Luo;
Mr Fred Wang; Mr Dae Raftos;
Mr Alan Kilgore and Mr Chris Searchfield
Partner Institutions: RMIT/UQ — Professor Philip Poronnik;
National Institute of Accountants — Mr Greg Tangey;
King Mongkuts University, Bangkok — Associate
Professor Jirapa Vitayanpirak; Universidad Politecnica
de Madrid — Dr Trinidad Fernandez

Category:

Education

Tags:

• language
• dictionary
• teaching
• education
• macquarie
• university