Y Tiwtiadur

Description of impact

Y Tiwtiadur is a collection of data-driven teaching and learning tools designed to help supplement Welsh language learning at all different ages and levels. Y Tiwtiadur contains four distinct corpus-based exercises:

a Gap Filling (Cloze) exercise allowing teachers to delete words from a text at specified intervals (e.g. every 7th word) to encourage or assess learners’ comprehension abilities and prediction strategies;
a Vocabulary Profiler exercise that enables the grading of texts by word frequency;
a Word Identification exercise testing learners’ ability to guess a word in context; and
a Word-in-Context exercise that facilitates intensive work on a specified vocabulary item.

Impact Summary for the General Public

Y Tiwtiadur is a collection of data-driven teaching and learning tools designed to help supplement Welsh language learning at all different ages and levels. Y Tiwtiadur contains four distinct corpus-based exercises:

a Gap Filling (Cloze) exercise allowing teachers to delete words from a text at specified intervals (e.g. every 7th word) to encourage or assess learners’ comprehension abilities and prediction strategies;
a Vocabulary Profiler exercise that enables the grading of texts by word frequency;
a Word Identification exercise testing learners’ ability to guess a word in context; and
a Word-in-Context exercise that facilitates intensive work on a specified vocabulary item.

Description of the underpinning research

The tools in Y Tiwtiadur all use information from the 11 million word CorCenCC corpus. All the language in the corpus is from real life communication, so the word frequencies and the language samples in Y Tiwtiadur reflect how Welsh is really used across a range of data types, from different speakers/contributors, in different situations, and discussing a range of topics. Some of the tools give options to work with specific sections of data, based on topic or data type, for example.

Beneficiaries and reach of impact

The tool is an open access resource that can be used by pupils, teachers, Welsh for Adult learners, Welsh for Adult tutors, language researchers, ITE tutors and students and curriculum planners.

Impact status	Ongoing
Category of impact	Cultural, Technological, Societal