Corpus Training for Students and Visiting Scholars
How can you use language corpora and corpus tools to help improve your academic writing? We provide support, training and in-class sessions in our work at the ELI.
Members of the Michigan Corpus Linguistics team provide corpus training (including help with research projects and introductions to corpus-analytic software) for students at the University of Michigan and visiting scholars at the English Language Institute (ELI). To schedule a meeting, please email us at elicorpora@umich.edu.
Students learning to write academic English can often struggle with choosing the right word to use in a paper or technical report, or when they know the word they want to use they might not know the appropriate modifier or preposition to use with it. Learner dictionaries and grammar books may not always provide sufficient or relevant guidance in these situations. Language corpora and corpus analysis tools can help fill this gap.
We provide introductory tutorials and hands-on workshops in a number of the Academic English classes taught in the ELI to introduce students to the basics of corpus analysis. Most often students are introduced to some of the online corpus tools that allow them to search for examples of words and phrases in different text types and extract frequent (and infrequent) collocates of words. Knowing how to use these tools provides them with a means of correcting and evaluating their own academic writing.
The ELI awards short-term research scholarships to students and researchers who would like to use the ELI’s resources to carry out a project related to research carried out by ELI scholars. Please check the following websites for details about ELI visiting scholar requests and ELI Morley scholarships.
If you are a student at the University of Michigan and would like to learn more about corpus analysis, you may be interested in joining our Corpus Analysis Group.
How can you use language corpora and corpus tools to help improve your academic writing? We provide support, training and in-class sessions in our work at the ELI.
This project is examining the importance of recurrent word strings in different types of language.
The projects on this page provide examples of the kinds of research carried out by the researchers in the MCL team.
Here are a couple of links to corpus resources and to corpora you can search online if you want to see how words are actually used by speakers and writers of English.
On these pages you will find information about conferences members of the MCL team presented at or helped organize.