This section is simply a list of additional, useful resources for you to continue your corpus linguistics journey.

This list aims to be dynamic: should you find a dead link, or that a resource is missing, do please send me an e-mail. In the spirit of this Open Educational Resource, freely available resources will be prioritised.

1 Online corpus tools and corpora

• English-corpora.org
  • Free basic access to all users and corpora (with a limited number of queries and the need to be patient every once in a while).
  • Registration required.
  • Option to upgrade to premium individual or academic licenses.
  • Gives access to a range of English corpora covering general British and American English, web English registers, online news, Wikipedia articles, World Englishes, etc.
• Sketch Engine
  • Limited free trial account (30 days).
  • Registration required.
  • Many EU higher education institutions have access via the EU-funded ELEXIS project (until March 2022).
  • Gives access to a range of English corpora including the Spoken BNC2014, the EnTenTen15, the Cambridge Open Learner Corpus, many non-English corpora, and the possibility to build DIY corpora.
  • A large number of open corpora are now available for free without an account.
• SKELL (Sketch Engine for language learning)
  • Free and no registration required.
  • Available in English and a few additional languages.
• CQPweb
  • Free
  • Registration required.
  • Gives access to several useful English corpora including the Spoken BNC2014, the American and British English 2006 corpora, and many corpora in languages other than English (e.g., Arabic, Norwegian, Punjabi, Thai).
• BNClab
  • Free and no registration required.
  • A learner-friendly interface to explore the spoken sections of the British National Corpora (BNC) 1994 and 2014.
  • The Corpus for School project website features many very well-designed worksheets and lessons ideas to work with the BNClab.
• TCSE Ted Corpus SearchEngine
  • Free and no registration required.
  • A user-friendly search engine designed to explore TED talks with the transcripts and original videos.
  • Includes useful concordancing, n-grams and construction functions.
• Compleat Lexical Tutor
  • Free and no registration required.
  • Includes a range of useful tools for data-driven learning.
• Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE)
  • Free and no registration required.
• Michigan Corpus of Upper-Level Student Papers (MICUSP)
  • Free and no registration required.
• KonText
  • Free with optional free registration for additional options.
  • Includes a range of corpora in different languages with an emphasis on Czech since it is developed and maintained by the Institute of the Czech National Corpus.
  • Provides easy access to parallel corpora with aligned texts in Czech, English and many other languages.
  • Comprehensive user manual available in Czech and English.
• VersaText
  • Free and no registration required.
  • Allows teachers or learners to analyse individual texts.
• Leeds collection of Internet corpora
  • Free and no registration required.
  • Includes a range of Internet language corpora, including in languages other than English.
• Parallel English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Corpora:
  • A free concordancer (no registration required) to examine learner and professional EAP in the fields of (applied) linguistics and language teaching

2 Free downloadable corpus tools for offline corpus work

• AntConc
  • Free to download and use for non-commercial purposes.
  • Works cross-platform (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux).
  • Can be combined with a whole suite of more specialised free software also developed by Laurence Anthony (e.g. AntCorGen to create discipline-specific corpora on the basis of open-access academic articles).
• LancsBox
  • Free to download and use for non-commercial purposes.
  • Works cross-platform (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux).
  • Comes with a number of pre-built corpora.
  • User guide available in English, French and Japanese.

A far more comprehensive list of corpus tools can be found here.

3 Additional free online resources for teachers and learners

• The Corpus for School website features many worksheets and lessons ideas based on the BNClab (see above) for A-level English and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) (project leader: Dana Gablasova).
• The Corpus-Aided Platform for Language Teachers (CAP) features tutorial videos on using corpora, training videos on designing corpus-informed teaching materials and a bank of corpus-informed lesson plans for primary, secondary and tertiary levels (including worksheets) on vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, comprehension skills and much more.
• Improving writing through corpora: Data-driven learning? A free online course in five modules from the University of Queenland (also available in Mandarin Chinese)
• Corpora in language teaching: A free online Moodle course presenting multiple applications of corpora in language teaching and learning created by Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska.
• Datengesteuertes Lernen: Lexiko-grammatische Kenntnisse erweitern und sprachliche Zweifelsfälle lösen. An accessible article on data-driven learning with examples and worksheets for the EFL classroom by Dirk Siepmann (in German).
• Recordings of Peter Crosthwaite‘s online workshops on corpora and data-driven learning for English Language Teaching (ELT) lesson planning.
• Video recordings of talks and/or slides on the use of corpora to inform the teaching of English for Academic Purposes from a one-day event organised by the BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG and held online on 14 Jan 2021.
• Short tutorials on using corpus tools for (trainee) English teachers mostly using english-corpora.org and Sketch Engine by Elen Le Foll (recorded in 2020 and 2021).
• Corpus Linguistics for Beginners: a series of short lectures and tutorials mostly using AntConc by Yassine Labdounane (recorded in 2020 and 2021).

4 Recommended books

• Bennet, Gena R. (2010). Using Corpora in the Language Learning Classroom. Corpus Linguistics for Teachers. University of Michigan Press: Michigan ELT.
• Crawford, William J., & Csomay, Eniko (2016). Doing corpus linguistics. New York: Routledge.
• Crosthwaite, Peter (Ed.). (2020). Data-driven learning for the next generation: Corpora and DDL for pre-tertiary learners. London; New York: Routledge.
• Friginal, Eric (2018). Corpus linguistics for English teachers: New tools, online resources, and classroom activities. New York: Routledge.
• Karpenko-Seccombe, Tatyana (2020). Academic writing with corpora: A resource book for data-driven learning. London: Routledge.
• O’Keeffe, Anne, McCarthy, Mike, & Carter, Ronald (2007). From corpus to classroom: Language use and language teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Pérez-Paredes, Pascual (2020). Corpus Linguistics for Education: A Guide for Research (1st ed.). Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge.
• Poole, Robert (2018). A guide to using corpora for English language learners. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Reppen, Randi (2010). Using Corpora in the Language Classroom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Timmis, Immis (2015). Corpus linguistics for ELT: Research and practice. London; New York: Routledge.
• Viana, Vander & Aisling O’Boyle (2021). Corpus linguistics for English for academic purposes . London ; New York: Routledge.