MonoConc
Companion Web Sites, December 2002

GDIST Training Lab, Cairo, Egypt
Leslie Opp-Beckman, leslieob@uoregon.edu

MonoConc is a concordancer software program. A concordance program retrieves all the instances of a particular word or phrase and displays the "hits" together in one window. This simple technique leads to analyses of language of interest to a range of users. Features include (for more details on features, go to: http://www.athel.com/features.html):

• Corpus: Any alphabetic language can be used; unlimited size of corpus.
• Searching: Word or phrase (or part of word); advanced searches; save to file.
• Sorting: Primary and secondary sorts (1st Right, 2nd Right, 1st Left, 2nd Left, Search Term).
• Frequency Information: Collocate frequency of search word.
• Display: KWIC or sentence format; file and line number info for each hit.

  A Brief Introduction to the Basic Use of MonoConc
  http://www.athel.com/tour.html

  Product Support
  http://www.athel.com/

Concordancing Teaching Tips and Resources

Building your Vocabulary
http://www.bangkokpost.net/education/site2000/buildvoc.htm

Cobuild Corpora and Collocations Sampler
http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/form.html

Concordances and Corpora, A Tutorial
http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/corpora/tutorial.html

Corpus Linguistics
http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/monkey/ihe/linguistics/contents.htm

Online Concordancer
http://132.208.224.131/Concord.htm

Vocabulary Levels Tests Online
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r21270/levels/

W-3 Corpora Site
http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/w3c/

Web Concordancer
http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/
or:
http://www.edict.com.hk/concordance/

WebCorp
http://www.webcorp.org.uk/webcorp.html

Extended Activities and Resources

KWiCFinder
http://miniappolis.com/KWiCFinder/KWiCFinderHome.html

Lexical FreeNet
http://www.lexfn.com/

Phrasal Verbs Dispenser
http://www.stuff.co.uk/phrasal.htm

Vocabulary Resources for ESL/EFL from I-TESL-J
http://iteslj.org/links/TESL/Vocabulary/
and:
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vocabulary.html

Word Central
http://www.wordcentral.com/home.html

Word of the Day, from NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/wordofday/index.html

Words in the News, from World News BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/news/words/general/021106_witn.shtml