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This page offers information about some common corpus tools and links to resources on the web. Via Anthony Heald 
Vocabulary Exercises - General Vocabulary Exercises and Academic Words Exercises. 
This site is designed to provide access to up to date research tools for people working in the field of Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition. The site is maintained by Paul Meara. A complete website for learning and learning about English words. You can test your vocabulary level, then work on the words at the level where you are weak. 
A very quick and easy website that directly gives collocations for a search word, without the concordance lines. Results are based on an 80 million word subset of the BNC. WebCorp: Using the World Wide Web as a corpus - a rich source of linguistic information. 
425 million word corpus of American English, 1990-2011. Compare to the BNC and ANC. Large, balanced, up-to-date, and freely-available online. ![[bnc] British National Corpus | Vocabulary Websites | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/bMxAZCTGShft2KkQPCsT-Tl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written. Allows for the free on-line phraseological interrogation of the BNC in strings up to eight words long. |
You can now input an entire text -- maybe a newspaper article that you've copied from a website, or something you've written -- and it will then give you detailed information about the words and phrases in the text. There's now no need to copy and paste individual words and phrases into the regular COCA interface -- just work seamlessly from your original text. 
This is a great site to help you with sentence structure. Just type in the beginning of the sentence and it will offer you options for the next word in the sentence. Via Nik Peachey 
Vocabulary page of The Centre for Independent Language Learning of Hong Kong Polytechnic University... Using English for Academic Purposes: Advice and Information for Students in Higher Education... Search the Web directly for concordances of words and phrases in 34 different languages. Word Neighbors is a basic pedagogically-oriented web concordancers. 
The Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech (SCOTS Project) is an ongoing project to build a corpus of modern-day written and spoken texts in Scottish English and varieties of Scots. Bookmarks for Corpus-based Linguists This website has links to other vocabulary websites, papers, and presentations on vocabulary teaching, and other learning activities. |
