Forgive me if this has already once been posted, but I wanted to share a website I've been using (and training students to use) for quite a while now.
The website, americancorpus.org, is a corpus of American and British English (separate corpora). There's also a Spanish corpus. I use it to help my students discover collocation patterns for new (and not new) vocabulary words. I've found the site to be especially helpful for phrasal verb issues my students run into.
If a student doesn't know which particle connects with which verb (when trying to use a phrasal verb), they can enter their desired verb into the search box and get many examples of how that verb is used (in spoken and written English). Trolling through the examples, students can start to see a pattern of which particle is often used with the verb to form a phrasal verb.
This website is one tool I use to help students take some measure of control over their own learning. I hope it's something useful for you.
As a side note, the website won't work on resolutions under 1024x768.
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use this corpus almost daily. Just yesterday in class, a student asked about the difference between "intense" and "profound." We then went to type each in and studied the kinds of nouns that typically come after these two adjectives. Thus, we gained a better understanding of the real use of these two adjectives. Databases like this are a tremendous help for ESL people.
By the way, to get into the multiple corpora, I use this URL: http://view.byu.edu/
Thanks for sharing the website and your use of corpus linguistics.
Lee
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