This is really something English language teachers and linguists should be aware of.
The BYU Corpus of American English is officially out. It’s a 360 million corpus covering five genres (spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals) published between 1990 and 2007. The interesting thing is that the corpus online search facility allows searches that [...]
Archive for February, 2008
American English corpus
Posted in Useful links, tagged American English, corpus, language resources on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Marketing slide shows and a video
Posted in LSP, Materials design, Skills, Useful links on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Slideshare is a real blessing: you can watch slide shows on various topics. For example these by Stephan Dahl on the topic of Consumer behaviour and Segmentation. They are also great as a teaching tool: you can ask your students to do the talking and sharpen up their presentation skills that way. The slide shows [...]