Concordancers for Academic English Study

A concordancer is a computer program which is used to search through a corpus, in other words a collection of texts. This video reviews the four main online concordancers for academic English study: Lextutur; BNC; MICUSP; and SKELL. ▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 Intro 00:25 What is a concordancer? 02:12 Lextutor 07:43 BNC 14:07 MICUSP 16:53 SKELL 19:35 Summary (language) 21:02 Summary (features) ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Video created using VideoScribe software [affiliate link]: https://tidd.ly/37VdIB7 Concordancers function like search engines, providing a list of sentences containing the search term or other information such as frequency. This allows the user to look for patterns, to see how common a word or phrase is, or to understand how the word is used, for example whether it commonly combines with particular words or phrases (i.e. collocations) Concordancers search through a corpus (plural form corpora), which can consist of spoken or written texts, and can be collected according to many different principles. For example, there are corpora for newspaper articles, fiction, web pages, as well as for academic English (spoken and written). Some corpora have thousands of words, while others have millions or even billions of words.