Words, types, and patterns: beginning corpus linguistics

This presentation will introduce concordancing as a means of investigating language. Words will be analyzed in terms of their typical behaviors and patterns. By applying this approach, words can be categorised into 'families' for a more organic and authentic description of language. The practical classroom applications will be demonstrated with a number of exercises, tasks and handouts for students at different levels. Participants will engage in materials development and concordancing tasks with genuine corpus data to investigate and evaluate this approach.
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