Teachers who want to learn more about the corpus may find the links on this page of interest.
In From Corpus to Course Book, Michael McCarthy discusses the fundamentals of corpus research and the ways this research has been used to develop Touchstone.
From Corpus to Course Book (326 KB)
For more information about corpora available throughout the world, and for information about corpus tools available for purchase, visit Michael Barlow's website at http://www.athel.com/corpus.html
Find out about the American National Corpus, a major corpus of spoken and written North American English that's available for research and classroom use, at http://americannationalcorpus.org
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