Corpus Training and Research
On these pages you find information about our research activities and training we provide in corpus analysis. Some of the findings from our projects and publications may be relevant for your teaching.
On our “Corpus Training and Research” pages you will find information about our recent and ongoing research activities and about the training we provide in corpus analysis. We have also put together a list of links to a selection of online corpora, corpus tools, and corpus projects that we thought you might find useful.
If you are an instructor at the University of Michigan and would like to learn more about corpus analysis and how to use corpora with your students, you may be interested in joining our Corpus Analysis Group.
The MCL team frequently provide introductions to corpus analysis and training in the use of corpus tools for scholars visiting the ELI and also in writing classes offered in the English Language Institute.
This is a project to explore the factors involved in the measurement of repeated word sequences in language sampled from a range of corpora.
Using computational corpus analysis and experimental data this project aims to produce an extensive inventory of English Verb Argument constructions and to quantify aspects related to the frequency, semantic coherence and speaker accessibility of verbs in constructions.
These projects illustrate the range of research being carried out by members of the MCL team.
This page lists a number of useful corpus tools and corpora you can search online to retrieve examples of real spoken and written English.
On these pages you will find information about conferences members of the MCL team presented at or helped organize.
MICASE is a great resource for the ESL/EAP classroom, to help make your lessons more authentic and more effective for your students.
MICUSP is a corpus of advanced student writing from 16 disciplines at the University of Michigan.
Use the transcripts from the JSCC to help your students master the art of conference presentations or just improve their general presentation skills.
This project aims to identify the writing patterns and preferences of international students, as well as Generation 1.5 writers.
On these pages you find information about our research activities and training we provide in corpus analysis.