Corpus Training for Students and Visiting Scholars
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.
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).
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 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.