Basic corpus queries: First steps on english-corpora.org

This video was first made as a revision video for the course "Designing and Evaluating Materials for Language Teaching" (Osnabrück University, summer semester 2020). It is an introduction to basic functions of the english-corpora.org corpus interface including: - Accessing the COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English) - Accessing the BNC (British National Corpus) - Comparing raw and per million frequencies - Comparing frequencies across different subcorpora (text genres/registers) - Selecting a random sample of concordance lines - Searching for collocates - Comparing the collocates of two similar words elenlefoll.eu | twitter.com/elenlefoll | CC-BY-4.0