Links: 

 

 

Manual - how to use the Vocabulary_Profile.doc

 

 

A) Corpora:

 

Web concordancer  (Brown corpus; easy to use; good resource for students)

 

MICASE  (spoken corpus; academic language) MICASE YOU-TUBE VIDEO

 

 

 

 

Corpus of American English  (several registers; 360 million words) CONTENT.doc

 

 

 

Webcorp  (uses the web as a corpus; takes a long time)

 

Just the Word  

 

Corpus of American English (Time magazine)

 

International Corpus of English  (other English varieties)

 

MacMillan Dictionary online  (login and password)

 

Google trends  

 

Language Log discussion of "# of hits on Google"  (search site for "Ghits" for many examples of using Google searches as a linguistic tool)

 

 

Word Neighbors

 

 

Singapure Corpus of Classroom Language

 

 

Corpus of Postings (USENET)

 

 

 

Time magazine

 

 

Corpus Eye

 

 

Simple English Wiktionary

 

Elisa corpus (Interview corpus)

 

 

 Cobuild (information)

 

 PERC Corpus

 

 

 

 Many Eyes

 

 BAWE Corpus (British Academic Written English Corpus)

 

 

BNC (Sample)

 

 

 Microconcord Corpus

 

 

B) Software:

 

Compleat Lexical Tutor(vocabulary profile; quizzes)

 

The AWL highlighter(highlights academic vocabulary in texts)

 

TextStat(free concordancer)

 

Collocations(free)

 

Concordance

 

 

 

ToolKit

 

 

 

AntConc

 

 

Dexter

 

 

Dexter (install)

 

N-grams

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

C) Teaching with Corpora:

 

 

Let's talk MICASE  (activities)

 

CorpusLAB

 

 

 

 

D) Other:

 

Dictionary of Corpus Linguistics

 

 

Wordnet

 

 

Google Trends

 

 

Academic Word List

 

 

References (Learner Corpora)

 

 

Log likelihood calculator

 

 

More links

 

 

How to use MICASE (video) + power point

 

 

David's Lee website (lots of links)

 

WebGenre

 

Proceedings (corpus conference)

 

 

 

 

 

E) Other languages:

 

 

Portuguese

 

Portuguese 2 (COMPARA)

 

 

Portuguese 3 (Lacio Web)

 

 

Portuguese 4 (Linguateca)

 

 

Portuguese 5 (Comet)