Blog post #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:

Compleat Lexical Tutor: http://www.lextutor.ca/

Corpus of Contemporary American English: http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/

Wordle: http://www.wordle.net/

It can be used for in a writing class. A teacher gives students a word or a phrase. then, the students begins to paraphrase sentence. Next, every student in the class presents their own new phrase.