I would like to offer support to postgraduate students and content specialists who have English as an L2 and need to write academic papers in that language.
Many thanks
We use ozdic.com to help students find the right collocations. It‘s an amazing online tool. Also, you might want to check out these websites
http://www.uefap.com/writing/writframevaluate.htm
and especially this one:
http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/
Best, Oliver
If the purpose is simply to help raise their awareness and knowledge of collocational strength, some corpora could make excellent tools to show what words co-occur with academic words. In particular I think COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English) is an excellent resource because there is a collocation search tool and COCA has one of the largest databases.
Dear Emma,
Please find list below of websites:
Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English Online (Subscription based)
https://elt.oup.com/catalogue/items/global/dictionaries/9780194724883?cc=global&selLanguage=en
Activities for ESL Students.
http://a4esl.org/
Cambridge Dictionary
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/about-words-clauses-and-sentences/collocation
English collocation dictionary (Google Play app)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.titan.app.english.collocation
Collins COBUILD Dictionary online.
http://news.collinselt.com/cobuild-dictionary-online/
Longman Collocations Dictionary and Thesaurus
http://global.longmandictionaries.com/
We use ozdic.com to help students find the right collocations. It‘s an amazing online tool. Also, you might want to check out these websites
http://www.uefap.com/writing/writframevaluate.htm
and especially this one:
http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/
Best, Oliver
many thanks to all, for the great suggestions! I will look into them.
Best
Emma
Mark Davies’s site contains lots of corpora to perform collocation search: http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu/personal/
and for academic writing, as Oliver noted, check out http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk, one of my favourite webs.
Even though it is not an online dictionary, the following file is very useful (and free of charge): http://www.kfs.edu.eg/com/pdf/2082015294739.pdf
Again, thanks for taking the time to answer my question! I will check your suggestions
best
Dear Emma,
I would also pick Oxford's: https://elt.oup.com/catalogue/items/global/dictionaries/9780194724890?cc=rs&selLanguage=en
and I would add that it's worth having a hardcopy on your desk.
Best,
Diana
Dear Emma,
You can also try http://www.just-the-word.com/ and http://www.ozdic.com/. They are the ones that I often benefit from when writing any piece of academic papers.
Regards,
ali.
Many thanks. I will share these resources and ideas with my students,
Best,
Emma
Please check Oxford Learner’s Dictionary of Academic English Online (one-year subscription for free)
Flax (http://flax.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax) might be what you are looking for. You can use it to search for collocations in a number of corpora, inluding a corpus of academic English. I hope that helps.
Dictionary by Merriam-Webster: America's most-trusted online dictionary
https://www.merriam-webster.com/
Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English Online (Subscription based)
https://elt.oup.com/catalogue/items/global/dictionaries/9780194724883?cc=global&selLanguage=en
Dear Emma, I use in class any free online one, easy for them
http://www.freecollocation.com/
For academic writing, depending on the level, I also used the phrase bank: http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/
There is also a very good book I recommend my students:
Academic Writing for Graduate Students (2012, Swales and Feak)
Hope that helps
Dear Macarena and Emma, thanks for sharing the phrase bank site. It is exactly the sort of link my postgrads will find useful.
Lextutor is an amazing tool for text analysis, including collocations.
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