Working with the COCA wordandphrase.info site


Sandra Gollin Kies

Benedictine University, Lisle, IL
skies@ben.edu


LLW workshop: Performing Corpus Analysis: Putting Corpus Findings into Pedagogical Practice
CCCC, Pittsburgh 2019

Important links for this workshop


  1. english-corpora.org
  2. COCA
  3. wordandphrase.info
  4. academicvocabulary.info

"How Cats Lap": Comparing the Research Article & NYT report

Genre Text AG R1 AG R2 AG R3 Ac R1 Ac R2 Ac R3 Disc AVL score
Research Article "How Cats Lap" 28 54 18 12 7 5 Sci 24
Journalism NYT report 41 49 10 6 2 5 Sci 13

Undergraduates

Student Text AG R1 AG R2 AG R3 Ac R1 Ac R2 Ac R3 Disc AVL score
A WRIT 101 E1ii 52 38 11 3 2 2 Hum 7
A WRIT 101 E4ii 40 48 12 8 2 4 Sci 14
B WRIT 101 E1ii 44 21 35 5 1 1 Soc 7
B WRIT 101 E4ii 41 31 28 8 2 6 Sci 16
D WRIT 101 E1ii 36 32 29 10 3 0 13
D WRIT 101 E4ii 51 45 4 6 1 0 7

Undergraduates (1984)

Student Text AG R1 AG R2 AG R3 Ac R1 Ac R2 Ac R3 Disc AVL score
FYC T 1984 55 42 3 10 4 0 14
FYC M 1984 46 50 4 8 2 0 10
FYC Q 1984 60 35 5 4 2 0 6

First-year Grads

Student Text AG R1 AG R2 AG R3 Ac R1 Ac R2 Ac R3 Disc AVL score
Micusp G1.03.1 Desire 31 32 36 19 5 5 Hum 29
Micusp G1.04.1 Sports literacy 30 30 32 17 5 5 Soc 27
Micusp G1.02.1 Troilus 27 35 38 12 3 3 Hum 18
Micusp G1.05.1 Yeats 22 41 38 7 2 8 Hum 17
Micusp G1.01.1 Clarissa 30 36 34 9 4 2 Hum 15
Micusp G1.06.1 Nora 29 33 28 7 3 3 Hum 13

Graduates

Student Text AG R1 AG R2 AG R3 Ac R1 Ac R2 Ac R3 Disc AVL score
M_L Thesis Intro /lit r 44 51 5 21 8 11 Hum 40
J_L Thesis Intro /lit r 40 53 7 14 5 8 Hum 27
A_V Thesis Intro /lit r 50 41 9 21 7 9 Edu 37
K_V Thesis Intro /lit r 54 41 5 19 6 13 Edu 38
S_V Thesis Intro /lit r 50 43 7 19 6 12 Edu 37
M_V Thesis Intro /lit r 51 41 8 16 4 14 Edu 34
M_N Thesis Intro /lit r 62 31 7 14 4 11 Edu 29

Genre Studies

Genre Text AG R1 AG R2 AG R3 Ac R1 Ac R2 Ac R3 Disc AVL score
Journalism M Tongue 55 36 9 7 2 1 Hum 10
Argument MLK 50 45 5 7 3 3 Phil/Relig 13
Journalism Is Google 51 43 6 10 4 2 Sci 16
Ac Textb hooks 41 32 28 9 5 3 Edu 17
Political Dec of Indep 39 52 8 8 6 3 Law 17
Ac Text Friere 39 50 11 11 5 5 Edu 21

Three novels

Genre Text AG R1 AG R2 AG R3 Ac R1 Ac R2 Ac R3 Disc AVL score
Fict Gatsby 29 34 37 4 2 1 Hum 7
Fict HoD 25 36 38 2 2 1 Hum 5
Fict Vegetarian 35 33 32 5 2 0 Hum 7

References

Gardner, D., & Davies, M. (2014). A New Academic Vocabulary List. Applied Linguistics, 35(3), 305-327.

Gardner, D., & Davies, M. (2016) A response to "To what extent is the Academic Vocabulary List relevant to university student writing?" English for Specific Purposes, 43, 62-68.

Durrant, P. (2016) To what extent is the Academic Vocabulary List relevant to university student writing? English for Specific Purposes 43, 49-61.

Thank you!


Sandra Gollin Kies
skies@ben.edu