#5: Corpora, Concordance, Collocations, Word Frequency

Check out the following sites and report back on how they could be used to inform materials development and classroom instruction:

1. Compleat Lexical Tutor 

   http://www.lextutor.ca/ 

  This website is developed by Tom Cobb of the University of Quebec at Montreal(UQAM). This website has lots of tools for English teaching and learning vocabulary and grammar. Also, this site provides diagnostic vocabulary tests. At first, it may not easy to know how to use it. But  if you know this website considerably, you can check it's so useful for learning language.
 In ‘Learn from List’ section, you can let your students test their vocabulary level and check the answers. We can also use new words, read and listen to a novel. 

2. Corpus of Contemporary American English  

http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/

   Corpus of Contemporary American English site gives us fresh information and accurate frequency data of English in the different kinds of parts like journals, newspapers, fictions. It contains more than 450 million words of text. If you search the word, you can check a lot of corpus and collocations with the word plus the frequency of these.
As a teacher, you can make a English class in a computer room and let them know a lot or word corpus by themselves. It can be useful for a English vocabulary survey class. 

3. Wordle 

 http://www.wordle.net/

   In the Wordle website, we can create any word clouds by ourselves with words size, layouts, colors, fonts. It looks like a word puzzle or word map. Students can feel exciting under the stimulus of these wordle pictures. The most important thing is that WORDLE provides a measure the frequency of the words. It heps us to search the key-words or topic.  Moreover, you can put monthly class percepts using this wordle picture. You can choose a special topic and make a text together. It could be more related with students because it is from the students themselves.