Session Four: Links for the Lab

It will be a good idea to keep this web page open and visible throughout this week's lab session.  The powerpoint presentation is full of screen caps from websites, some of which you will be encouraged to explore.  A list of links in the order in which they *should* appear is below:

1. Oxford Dictionaries Online
2. Google Fight
3. Leeds University Collection of Searchable Corpora
4. Wordsmith Tools and Antconc
5. Wordle
6. Dr Johnson's Dictionary
7. AWL Highlighter
8. The Sketch Engine
9. Oxford Collocations Dictionary (google it!)
10. Compleat Lexical Tutor
11. Collocate Cloud
12. Touchstone : from Corpus to Coursebook
13. Cobb, T. 1997 "Is there any measurable learning from hands-on concordancing?" System 25 / 3

You might also like to explore:

1. An extensive blog post by Alannah Fitzgerald
2. Google books n-gram viewer (explained in this lovely presentation on TED)
3. A Handbook of Spoken Grammar
4. Spindle - turns audio into text AND analyses it!
5. Flax
6. Mark Davies' website - enables you to work with 7 different online corpora
7. VOICE - Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English

If I've missed anything, let me know and I will add extra links later.