This video was first made as a revision video for the course "Designing and Evaluating Materials for Language Teaching" (Osnabrück University, summer semester 2020).
It is an introduction to basic functions of the english-corpora.org corpus interface including:
- Accessing the COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English)
- Accessing the BNC (British National Corpus)
- Comparing raw and per million frequencies
- Comparing frequencies across different subcorpora (text genres/registers)
- Selecting a random sample of concordance lines
- Searching for collocates
- Comparing the collocates of two similar words
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