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Activity 3 Benefits of concordances 
Objective: to let students reflect on the use of corpus analysis. 
Time: 20 minutes 
Materials: 
Procedure: 
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Ask students now reflect on the tasks and summarise how corpus analysis can be useful. 
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Establish that corpus analysis is useful to see how words are used in real life contexts, to 
discover different meanings and uses of common words, useful phrases and typical 
collocations, analyse usage, for example, when is it appropriate to use lazy rather than idle, 
compare similar words. 
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Tell students they can use corpora on their own. 

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As home assignment ask students to go to http://www.lextutor.ca/ and search for a word of 
their choice. Then write a short report on what word(s) have they searched, what have they 
learnt, what they found interesting etc. 
Vocabulary in context II 
Concordances in learning vocabulary 
Handout 1, Activity 1 
What is a corpus? 
A collection or 
body 
of texts in electronic form. The plural is corpora. A corpus is assembled by 
collecting texts in electronic form. The texts are usually chosen to represent different genres 
(letters, newspaper articles, fiction, conversations etc.). 
A corpus may contain texts in a single language (
monolingual corpus
) or text data in multiple 
languages (
multilingual corpus
). 
Some notable text corpora in English: 
~ Google N-Grams Corpus 
~ American National Corpus 
~ Bank of English 
~ British National Corpus 
~ Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) 425 million words 
~ International Corpus of English 
What is a concordance? 
The lines of text illustrating the search word. 
Study the concordances for the word ―waste‖. 
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