tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4934722013408645447.post582005989242360229..comments2023-10-20T17:28:03.193+03:00Comments on Teacher Evolution: Five ways to introduce concordances to your students.Steve Neufeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10223788009732515222noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4934722013408645447.post-75427742034413372082014-10-30T10:26:57.563+02:002014-10-30T10:26:57.563+02:00There are lists of NGRAMS for multiple word chunks...There are lists of NGRAMS for multiple word chunks. See http://www.ngrams.info/ as an example. However, for teaching purposes, I often use http://books.google.com/ngrams - useful for specific examples, e.g., "AT WEEKENDS" or "ON WEEKENDS" See https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=at+weekends%2Con+weekends%2Cat+the+weekend%2Con+the+weekend&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=18&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2Cat%20weekends%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bat%20weekends%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BAt%20weekends%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Con%20weekends%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bon%20weekends%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BOn%20weekends%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cat%20the%20weekend%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bat%20the%20weekend%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BAt%20the%20weekend%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Con%20the%20weekend%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bon%20the%20weekend%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BOn%20the%20weekend%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bon%20the%20Weekend%3B%2Cc0 for the British English and https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=at+weekends%2Con+weekends%2Cat+the+weekend%2Con+the+weekend&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=17&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2Cat%20weekends%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bat%20weekends%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BAt%20weekends%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Con%20weekends%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bon%20weekends%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BOn%20weekends%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cat%20the%20weekend%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bat%20the%20weekend%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BAt%20the%20weekend%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bat%20the%20Weekend%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Con%20the%20weekend%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bon%20the%20weekend%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BOn%20the%20weekend%3B%2Cc0 for the American English version. Interesting to note that the word 'weekend' only entered the English lexicon around 1940! I guess everyone worked six day weeks before then??? Also, perhaps an interesting correlation to the close relationship between Ronald Reagan and Maggie Thatcher might explain the 'spike' in the British use of the American preference for 'ON WEEKENDS'. :)Steve Neufeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10223788009732515222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4934722013408645447.post-55016282595407390362014-10-27T15:28:28.044+02:002014-10-27T15:28:28.044+02:00Great resourses, hocam! I haven't studied all ...Great resourses, hocam! I haven't studied all the sources you listed above, but I have a question. These tools are perfect in finding collocations of mostly two words, but what about collocations of more than two words, and especially collocations with prepositions. You see, some structures with prepositions and nouns include also articles, which automatically involve at least 3 words in one collocation. And preps and articles are the hardest things in English to both learn and teach :(<br />I wonder if there is this kind of search engine or software that can help us with that...Born to Be Asemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05912171668214470655noreply@blogger.com