Jennie Wright Making trouble-free tasks with corpora

Recording (28min): http://lancelot.adobeconnect.com/p2s18o3lv1t/

For learners who repeatedly misuse specific vocabulary and grammar, using a corpus (electronic multi-million word collections of real-world language examples) significantly enhances accuracy and competence. Accessible to everyone, with masses of free material to exploit, session participants will leave knowing how to quickly and easily use corpora to design activities that take less than ten minutes to create.

Jennie Wright is a teacher, blogger and author currently based in Germany. With over 15 years of experience, her blog http://teflhelperblog.wordpress.com/ features free professional development resources for teachers. She also co-authored Experimental Practice in ELT: Walk on the wild side which is published by www.the-round.com.