Welcome to the interactive Introduction to Corpus Basics
This is an open-resource self-learning package that is free to use for anyone interested in the application of corpora (large computer-readable text databases) to practical language problems in English.
Realized by Julia Schlüter (Homepage), Katharina Deckert (Homepage) and Carina Großmann. Please contact us for feedback and comments.
Useful for:
- advanced students of English (for academic purposes/for special purposes),
- teachers of English (at secondary and tertiary levels), and
- anyone interested in corpus search techniques.
Features include:
- a series of short easy-to-follow video tutorials,
- click-along demos punctuated by hands-on exercises,
- interactive feedback on your results, and
- the option to contact or give feedback to the providers.
Interface
In this course, corpora (i.e. text databases) are accessed through English-Corpora.org, a very popular and user-friendly interface.
- Users need to register here: Registration.
- You can:
- create an account free of charge (which entitles you to 20 searches per day),
- join an institutional license (if your university has one), or
- buy your own license (for more information, see https://www.english-corpora.org/premium.asp).
Learning package - START HERE!
Access the KorPLUS start page and select a self-learning package according to your needs. To access them, you need to register a free account on the Virtual Linguistics Campus, an OER platform hosted at RWTH Aachen University.
Contents of the course
- Introduction to corpora and corpus linguistics (corpus types, affordances and challenges)
- Basic queries (lists, wildcards, charts, sections)
- Advanced queries (synonyms, word sketches, collocates, comparison of words, lemmas, POS tags, key-word-in context)
- Additional information and exercises
Part of the project Digitale Kulturen der Lehre entwickeln (DiKuLe) at the University of Bamberg
Funded by the Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre (2021-2025)
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