Cambridge International Corpus

Cambridge International Corpus

Resources

Shown below are podcasts, articles and downloads giving more information about the Cambridge English Corpus. Check back soon for new updates!

 

Podcasts


The Cambridge Corpus team recently visited Nottingham University to find out more about Corpus research underway at the Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics:

  • Podcast: Professor Ron Carter, Nottingham University

COMING SOON!! Hear the latest from Professor Ron Carter about future direction of Corpus studies.

  • Podcast: Ron Martinez, Nottingham University

COMING SOON!! Hear PhD Student Ron Martinez talk about developing a new ELT resource using corpora.

 

Articles

The author of The language of business meetings and the Business Advantage series discusses how he has used linguistic research in his publications.

The author of Business Vocabulary in Use describes how corpora can be used to write language training materials, and offers ideas on how teachers can use language from the web in the classroom.

 

Video

The author of Business Advantage talks about using a corpus of business meetings as the basis of developing teaching materials.

 

PDF downloads

  • PDF: Cambridge Learner Corpus - Error codes

COMING SOON! - Find out more about the annotation that helps us uncover student errors

  • PDF: Cambridge English Corpus - Info sheet

COMING SOON! - Find out more about the corpora that make up the Cambridge English Corpus

 

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