1. Corpora and Concordancers in ESL/EFL Class:
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Corpora and Concordancers in ESL/EFL Class:
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2. Definitions to the main terms
A Corpus is a collection of language texts
Definitions to the main terms
Concordancers are search engines.
Key Word in Context (KWIC, Concordance) is a list of words in context.

4. Some online free corpora
Some Online Free Corpora with Concordancing Software
The Corpus of Contemporary American English
Collins Wordbanks Online
The Compleat Lexical Tutor
British National Corpus
WebCorp
WebCONC
MICASE (Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English)
Web Concordancer
Online KWIC Concordancer

5. Some Uses of Concordancing.
Prepare language teaching materials and activities.
Do research-based self-correction of errors through self formulation of grammar rules.
Give more context to unknown vocabulary or newly learned vocabulary.
Find the most frequent words or phrases related to specific topics.
Compare synonyms.
Find word collocations.
Find overly-used words from your own collection of papers.
•Compare written and spoken language.
•Study development of language by comparing data from different time periods
Investigate cultural habits.

6. Am I using it right?
Which preposition is used with a certain verb, noun
Whether a piece of language you want to use sounds natural

11. Which one is correct? a) in east b) on east c) in the east
d) on the east

17. To freak out
“China is totally freaking out Japan. Big bad China. The Mainland. The second biggest economy on Earth. Communism. And a whole military complex. Neighboring Japan is worried.”

18. Comparing Genres

19. Comparing Time Periods from www.americancorpus.org

23. *To be able to do that you also need a concardancer!
Learner Corpus
LEARNER CORPUS
You can create your own corpus from learner texts and analyze it.
*To be able to do that you also need a concardancer!

35. Using corpora in class is very beneficial because:
It provides quick and easy access to huge amounts of language data.
It facilitates access to lexical and grammatical structures.
It shows what is preferred rather than what is right or wrong.
It provides exposure to real language that learners may encounter.
It allows learners to do self-driven exploration; Language learners retain better if they formulate the rules themselves.
It encourages learners to become active, autonomous researchers of the target language.