Webinar: Using corpora to teach English

Dr Anne O’Keeffe

The following links may be useful.

1) Google ngrams - https://books.google.com/ngrams

2) English Vocabulary Profile - http://www.englishprofile.org/wordlists
This profiles vocabulary by CEFR level.
English Grammar Profile - http://www.englishprofile.org/english-grammar-
profile/egp-online This profiles grammar points by CEFR level.
3) Lextutor - http://www.lextutor.ca/
Video with ideas on how to find chunks in text, click here
Video on how to use Lextutor to make a cloze test – click here
4) SkeLL - http://skell.sketchengine.co.uk/run.cgi/skell
5) You can sign up to a free account for the following applications:
a. Corpus of Contemporary American English - https://corpus.byu.edu/coca/
b. Write & Improve - https://writeandimprove.com/
c. Text Inspector - https://textinspector.com/
6) Sites where you enter a word or phrase and see it used in video clips
a. https://yarn.co/
b. https://www.playphrase.me/
c. https://youglish.com/

Books that might be of interesting:

Viana, Vander (2023) Teaching English with Corpora: A resource book. London: Routledge.
Poole, Robert, (2018) A Guide to Using Corpora for English Language Learners. Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press.