We hope you enjoyed unit 1, it’s been great getting to know you via the Padlet and the forum discussions.

Ok, now after the gentle, rolling start of the first unit, we’re going to kick things up a notch with unit 2, released on Monday 28th February at 10.00 (UK time). In this module we’ll be looking at the ‘classic’ way of representing corpus data, the concordance. We’ve all seen these keywords down the middle of the page with snippets of context on either side, and these can be enlightening or baffling in equal measures depending on the information you are given. We’ll be showing you how you can really take control of that data to show the information you want as well as getting you to read through a key text to link our search skills to what we can do in the classroom.

The tutor team of Anastasios Asimakopoulos and David Read are delighted to welcome you to this online course designed to help teachers use corpus tools more effectively. The course officially begins on Monday 21st February at 10.00 UK time with Unit 1 and you’ll be able to access that from the bottom of this page.

If you are here early, we have some orientation materials you can work through giving you some useful background input and information. Just scroll down to the bottom of this page and under Course Units find where it says Orientation Unit. Click on that to get started.