Corpora and corpus resources

Large Open Access Corpora

British National Corpus: http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/

Corpus of Contemporary American English: http://corpus.byu.edu/coca

Spoken Corpora

Corpus of American Soap Operas: http://corpus.byu.edu/soap/

Available at: http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/research/santa-barbara-corpus#Intro

EAP Corpora

British Academic Written English Corpus: http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-directory/art-design/british-academic-written-english-corpus-bawe

British Academic Spoken English Corpus: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collect/base/

Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micase/

Learner Corpora

International Corpus of Learner English: http://www.uclouvain.be/en-cecl-icle.html).

English Profile Corpus: http://www.englishprofile.org/index.php/corpus

The NICT Japanese Learner English (JLE) Corpus: http://alaginrc.nict.go.jp/nict_jle/index_E.html

ELF Corpora

Vienna and Oxford International Corpus (VOICE): http://www.univie.ac.at/voice/

English as a Foreign Language in Academic Setting (ELFA): www.helsinki.fi/elfa/elfacorpus

Pedagogic Corpora

System Aided Compilation and Distribution of European Youth Language: http://sacodeyl.inf.um.es/sacodeyl-search2/

Backbone – Corpora for Content & Language Integrated Learning http://projects.ael.uni-tuebingen.de/backbone/moodle/

English Language Interview Corpus a a Second-Language Application: http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/elisa/html/elisa_index.html

Corpus tools and resources

Antconc concordance: http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software.html

Wordsmith tools: http://www.lexically.net/wordsmith/

Academic Word Highlighter: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/alzsh3/acvocab/awlhighlighter.htm

Lexical Tutor: http://www.lextutor.ca/

Corpus Tagger: http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/claws/trial.html

Source: Ivor Timmis (2015) Corpus Linguistics for ELT. Routledge.