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Course outline

Module 1: Basic concepts

1 Presentation Corpus and corpus tools
2 Workshop Politics – an example of a corpus-based class BNC Online
3 Presentation Corpora in language teaching

Module 2: Large general corpora for teaching language elements and skills

4 Workshop Corpora for teaching vocabulary BNC Online, Word and Phrase.info,
BUY-BNC, COCA
5 Workshop Corpora for teaching phrasology Phases in English, Word and Phrase.info,
Just the Word, For Better English
6 Workshop Corpora for teaching grammar BNC Online, BUY-BNC,
MICASE, Backbone,
7 Workshop Corpora for teaching discourse organization MICASE
8 Workshop Corpora for practising language skills Antconc, BUY-BNC, COCA,
Word and Phrase.info, Backbone
9 Workshop Other tools and activities Web as Corpus, MICASE,
Compleat Lexical Tutor, AWL Highlighter

Module 3: Do-It-Yourself corpora for teaching language for special purposes

10 Presentation Corpora for LSP – overview of applications  Antconc
11 Presentation Corpora for LSP – overview of tools  Antconc
12 Workshop Corpora for LSP – workshop in building and analyzing a corpus  Antconc
13 Project Preparing a corpus-based class