Researching language with computers

Corpus links

1. Mark Davies web pages with several corpora, including the BNC
2. Sketch Engine: this is a subscription site, but has a 30 day full use tial subscription option
3. AntConc: download the free corpus analysis programme from here. You have a worksheet which introduces you to the basic functions of this programme.
4. Teachit
5. Spaceless.com: an online concordancer which you can load texts into and generate word frequency information from. It doesn't generate concordance lines, though.
6. The Compleat Lexical Tutor: Tom Cobb's website with lots of tools for exploring words and texts
7. The Cobuild sampler
8. BNC Sampler
9. Webcorp: a concordancer that searches the entire web. You can restrict your search to certain newspapers, ect
10. Leeds collection of Internet corpora: somewhat daunting interface but this may be useful for investigating new expressions, and also for making cross-linguistic comparisons
11. Corpora blog - this has some useful links
12. ICT4LT - excellent set of modules addressing applications of ICT in language teaching or teaching about language

Text links for the workshop

• Zephaniah poem
• Obama1 from http://obamaspeeches.com/
• Obama2 from http://obamaspeeches.com/
• A set of stop words

Materials for the workshop

• Morning worksheet - BNC
• Afternoon worksheet - AntConc
• Morning presentation