Benefits of the Corpus Tools

In the class, we learnt corpus tools through the sites such as http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ and http://www.wordandphrase.info/ . These sites are very useful to analyze both my own writing and the writings to be prepared for my students. They gives us a chance to check each word with its further uses. In the first site, we can find collocations, grammatical constructions, allophones. It contributes to enhance our writings as a student. Varible areas of using words create a wide range of writing style. In the second site, It is recognizable that words, phrases and texts can be analyzed in terms of their frequency. Being able to have a brilliant command of choosing each word minimizes possible misunderstanding in our classes. For instance, when we analyze our handouts prepared for our students in terms of their readibilities and comprehensibilities by taking into account their level, we have to also know that choosing each word and phrase included in our texts should be appropriate for their level in terms of frequency and academic use. Therefore these sites are very useful. I will use them in my language classes because they encourage the students to improve their awareness of word choice within different contexts.I will teach my students how to use them so as to help them enhance themselves in their writings. I have also used swiftkey keyboard in my mobile phone for a week. I knew this app before I had my current phone. In my previous phone, the keyboard in it has the same features. It was not swiftkey because of its operating system, windows. However, I am used to using it again now. I will encourage my future students to use this applications because it both save our own words and correct spelling errors. I suggests possible complements after written words It means that it shows the collocations while they are texting. In academic writings, it cannot be used or it is not a very reliable source, but in daily life there is no objection to use it. If there is someone to install this app to their phone this is the link: https://swiftkey.com/tr