Has anyone used corpora?

MegYam · Post by **MegYam** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 8:13 pm

Hello.
Can anyone share your experience of using corpora for langauge learning and teaching? I'd like to know when and how you use them, advantages and disadvantages, students' reaction (if used in class) etc. Any opinions and advice welcome. Thankyou.

Henry Teach · Post by **Henry Teach** » Sat May 01, 2004 11:15 am

There's a useful example of a concordancer at work here:

http://free-esl.com/all/call/articles/concord1.asp

You can also download a freeware concordancer from the link there as well.

Henry

emile · Post by **emile** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 8:20 am

As an editor, I use corpora to find the most common usage of certain words. For example, is it more common to say 'interested in...' or 'interested to...'