Hey guys, my name is Jay.
This is a video for teachers.Today we are
talking about corpus linguistics in the classroom
and specifically corpus collocations.So, collocations
are two words or more that fit together and
appear together more than chance allows.
In todays society we have so much technology
available.
I love technology.
I use it in my classes everyday.I use virtual
reality, google assistant.
Ok google, when should I use the present perfect?
I don't know, you 
are the English teacher, not me.
You're very cheeky OK!
I use technology a lot, and one of the things
we can use now now that the internet was created
is corpus linguistics.
Corpus linguistics is a database or a body
of information that has been collated over
time and the corpus I use is the COCA database
which has all, aah, many different types of
databases.
Specifically I like to use the spoken English
one.
I can research a database of every movie or
series back to the nineteen fifties and I
can search those for word frequencies, collocation
frequencies, structures that appear.
It is really endless what you can do with
it.
It is really useful for teachers so if you
are a teacher I implore you to integrate corpus
linguistics into your classes.
Course design, material design.
Quite often I open material and I see sentences
talking about PDA or fax machines or even
mp3 players.
I don't really think they exist any more.
I don't think anyone uses them.
It's 2020 guys let's update our methods.
There a lot of corpora available on the internet.
For example, every film and movie since the
decade 1950 has been recorded in a database.
You can search those databases.
There are databases for youtube, TEDTALKS,
and we can use these to go through and find
frequency of words, when words started to
become more used in our language.
That kind of thing.
I specifically use it to find collocations
and functional phrases, utility phrases that
are really used on the street today.
This is an invaluable tool and we should embrace
technology and use it in our classes.
I have a quiz on my instagram that show the
most common words that come after certain
phrase.
For example: Do you want to.
What would be the next most common word.
