Online resources
Summary of resources used in the course
Online corpora |
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| BNC Online | http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ |
| BNC – VIEW | http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/ |
| Corpus of Contemporary American English COCA (VIEW) | http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ |
| Other corpora in VIEW | http://view.byu.edu/ |
| BNC — Phrases in English | http://phrasesinenglish.org/ |
| Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) | http://micase.elicorpora.info/ |
| Backbone (pedagogic corpus of spoken languages) | http://134.2.2.16:8080/backbone-search/. |
Collocation finders |
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| Oxford Dictionary of collocations online | http://5yiso.appspot.com/ |
| Just the word — collocation finder (based on the BNC) | http://www.just-the-word.com/ |
| For Better English — another collocation finder (powered by Sketch Engine) | http://forbetterenglish.com/ |
| Word and Phrase (based on COCA) | http://www.wordandphrase.info/ |
Dictionaries |
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| Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | http://www.ldoceonline.com/ |
| Cambridge Dictionaries Online | http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ |
| Oxford Dictionaries | http://oxforddictionaries.com/?attempted=true |
| Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus | http://www.merriam-webster.com/ |
| Dictionary.com (dictionary and Thesaurus) | http://www.dictionary.com |
Corpus-based language teaching/learning tools and materials |
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| Tim Johns’ Kibbitzers | http://lexically.net/TimJohns/index.html |
| MICASE ESL/EAP Teaching Materials | http://micase.elicorpora.info/esl-eap-teaching-materials |
| MICASE ESL Self-Study Activities | http://micase.elicorpora.info/esl-self-study-activities |
| MICASE Kibbitzers | http://micase.elicorpora.info/micase-kibbitzers |
| Compleat Lexical Tutor | http://www.lextutor.ca/ |
| AWL Highlighter | http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/awlhighlighter.htm |
Web as Corpus |
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| Web as Corpus | http://webascorpus.org/ |
| WebCorp Live | http://www.webcorp.org.uk/live/ |
Concordancers |
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| Antconc | http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html |