We're excited to launch and share the free and interactive "KorPLUS" OER self-learning package, tailored to the needs of advanced students and teachers of English as well as anyone interested in the English language. It is based on the widely-used www.English-Corpora.org interface and endorsed by the platform's host, Mark Davies (https://www.English-Corpora.org/thirdPartyMaterials.asp).

https://www.uni-bamberg.de/KorPLUS/

Make your students corpus-literate (https://youtu.be/72ZQiluCbgA), recommend it to (future) teachers (https://youtu.be/Hkw3l9SF-R4), or enhance your own corpus skills with hands-on corpus searches dealing with everyday language problems (choice of words, prepositions, collocations, syntactic constructions, formal/informal language, British/American/other Englishes, etc.).

- Use the flexible, AI-supported material in parts or as a whole, as a standalone online course or integrated into blended-learning settings.
- Click along with demo videos, do interactive exercises at different levels, and receive suggestions for stimulating classroom discussions.
- Complete the corpus basics in only 2 to 3 hours and the entire package in 10 to 20 hours.
- Earn a certificate after the successful completion of the course.
- Apply the takeaways to typical language challenges in advanced writing and transfer your skills easily to corpus-based linguistic research.

Julia Schlüter and Katharina Deckert (University of Bamberg, Germany), in collaboration with Jürgen Handke (Virtual Linguistics Campus Team, University of Marburg, Germany)
Funded by the Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre (https://stiftung-hochschullehre.de/).

P.S.: Corpora in the hands of experts are - for the time being - more reliable than AI tools in cases of doubtful acceptability (e.g. in text correction/proofreading); see the playlist "Corpora vs. AI Tools", https://youtu.be/32tb7Xs7fFw?si=mhiaSyH9oG-1TjxM.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)