build your own corpus

Build  Your  Own  Corpus  English  for  Specific  Academic  Purposes  

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Alannah Fitzgerald Clare Carr Jeff Davidson

Specific  EAP  vocab  (UEFAP)  

http://www.uefap.com/vocab/vocfram.htm

ConverJng  .pdf  into  .txt    

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Ctrl/cmd  select,  copy  &  paste  

Save  as  .txt  

File  conversion  warnings  –  ignore    

ConJnue  with  .txt  save  

Range  text  analysis  

http://www.lextutor.ca/range/range_text/index.pl?ups=10

Raw  frequency  lists  

h"p://www.lextutor.ca/freq/lists_download/    

Building  your  own  corpus  -­‐  AntConc  

h"p://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/index.html    

AntConc  soYware    

h"p://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/soYware.html    

AntConc  video  tutorials  

h"p://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_index.html    

AntConc  keyword  list  tool  

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Which  corpus/tool/resource?  

Word  definiJons  &  frequency   General  English  

Word  families/derivaJves   General  Academic  English  

CollocaJons  &  grammaJcal  pa"erns   Specific  Academic  English  

PreposiJons   Academic  Word  List  analysis  

Phrase/collocaJon  searching   Academic  Word  List  checking  

Phrase/collocaJon  saving   Specific  Academic  English  analysis  

Phrase/collocaJon  checking   Building  &  saving  your  own  corpus  

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