Corpora and Concordancers

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1. Large Corpus and Online Concordancers
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    * General *

• Just the Word (good for finding collocation)  http://www.just-the-word.com/  
• British National Corpus (BNC) http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/
• Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)  http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ http://www.americancorpus.org/
• COBUILD's Bank of English  http://www.collinslanguage.com/content-solutions/wordbanks/trial
• VLC Web concordancer  http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/concordance/
• Michigan Early Modern English Searcher http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/memem/
• http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=cme;cc=cme;page=boolean
• MultiConcordance http://www.lextutor.ca/multi_conc/
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* Topic/Genre-base Corpus

• British National Corpus (Times Magazine) http://corpus.byu.edu/time/
• Business Letter Concordancer (BLC) http://www.someya-net.com/concordancer/
• Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/c/corpus/corpus?
• Strongs' Bible Concordance http://www.tgm.org/bible.htm
• Michigan Corpus of Middle English Prose & Verse http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/
• Movie Corpus (movie script)http://www.simplyscripts.com/ http://www.script-o-rama.com/

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2. Web-based Corpus and Online Concordancers

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• Google Search http://www.google.com/ 
• Web Corpus(KIWK Finder) http://webascorpus.org/searchwc.html
• Lexware Culler http://www.nla.se/culler/
• Wildcard searcher http://webascorpus.org/searchseeds.html
• My Word (can embed into MSWord)   http://mws.ust.hk/mw/account/login.php

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3. Free Online dictionaries
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• OneLook Dictionary http://www.onelook.com/ 
• FreeDictionary (Thesaurus, other classified dictionaries ) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/semihard
• Cambridge Online Dictionary http://dictionary.cambridge.org/results.asp?searchword=girl&dict=B
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary http://www.m-w.com/mw/home.htm
• Dictionary of English Idioms & Idiomatic Expression http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/
• IdiomSite http://www.idiomsite.com/
• The Phrase Finder http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a.html
• Visuwords http://www.visuwords.com/(new! from TESOL 2012)

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4. Off-line Concordancer (Free software)
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• Wordsmith Tool (oxford University press)
• AntCon (free both MAC and PC) http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_index.html 
• Concordance (British, 30 trial)
• Concordance (Colorado edu, see the link at the page bottom)
•  KWIC Concordance
• MonoCon (only trial)
• Simple Concordance Program (by TextWorld)(free)
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* Good Introductory References *

• Using concordance programs in the Modern Foreign Languages classroom http://www.ict4lt.org/en/en_mod2-4.htm