Researching, teaching and learning English vocabulary
Nice to see that Steve and YongYang Li from Hong Kong have been discussing the ins and outs of RANGE and ANTCONC. A timely reminder also of the excellent work done at the Language Centre in Hong Kong as can be seen by following the link below:
And they have a General Education programme!
Today’s post is simply a message from Mark Davies, with links to, and information about, his very interesting looking corpus site:
This email is being sent to registered users of the corpora at
http://corpus.byu.edu , and its purpose is to let you know about some new
collaboration tools at this portal. These new tools allow you to:
1. Find and contact users of the corpora who are from the same country,
region, or city, or who have the same objectives as far as corpus use.
2. “Annotate” any of your searches (and their results), and then share
these with others, such as students or colleagues (and search the notes
from others).
3. Create short corpus-based “projects” for student use or to get feedback
from others, and search and use the projects that others have made.
4. Find published articles or conference presentations that are based on
the corpora
5. Find out some simple ways that you can volunteer to help others
6. Join a new Google group for corpus users, and share experiences and
insights with others
These features will allow interested users to “synergistically” work with
the more than 8000 registered users of the corpora. We invite you to spend
at least a few minutes at the new site and see what’s available.
Related to #4 above, many of you have used data from the corpora (COCA,
BNC, TIME, OED, or the Spanish and Portuguese corpora) as the basis for
published papers, conference presentations, theses, etc. If you haven’t
already entered references to these, would you *please* take a minute to
copy and paste that information now. You can do this via the ‘Publications’
link at the website. Thanks.
Finally, some of you may be interested to know that we recently received a
large grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (www.neh.gov) to
create a 300 million word corpus of historical American English (c1800-
present). For news on this and other items, click on ‘History’ at the
corpus portal (http://corpus.byu.edu).
Again, thanks for your interest in the corpora. As mentioned, we’ve now
become a large community of users — more than 20,000 unique users per
month, and more than 8000 registered users. We hope that these new features
(and upcoming corpora) will help you in your research, teaching, and
learning.
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P.S. If you want to contact us, please do so via the ‘Feedback’ link, and
not as a reply to this email. Please be aware that this week — as the new
portal is being introduced — it may be a few days before we can respond to
any questions. Finally, if you wish not to receive any more emails from BYU
(though we send less than one each year), log in at the portal, and then
select ‘Profile’ and then set ‘Receive emails from BYU’ to [NO].
