How to use BNCweb in the English classroom

BNCweb is an online interface to one of the most widely used corpora of English, the British National Corpus. Although originally created as a resource for lexicographers, the corpus can fruitfully be used in the English classroom both by teachers and learners. Specifically, this workshop aims to give participants a cursory overview to corpus linguistics, help them get registered for BNCweb, and show them how to use BNCweb for lesson preparation, marking papers, and, most importantly, teaching grammar (e.g., if-patterns, tenses, etc.) and vocabulary (word families, phrasal verbs, etc.) in the English classroom. The workshop will be held in English; participants will receive all materials used in the workshop so they can reuse them in the classroom.

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