ogue/multimedia/wordsmithtools3/

On-line help and a small manual On-line help and an extensive manual Can be used with different languages Can be used with different languages Beginning to advanced users Beginning to advanced users not applicable 0-19-45-92863 US $85 single user; US $550 15 user site 51.95 British pounds The recent interest in corpus linguistics and the use of authentic materials has created a need for software packages that allow teachers and researchers to carry out corpus-based investigations. These corpus-based investigations can be used to augment classroom instruction so that ESL/EFL students are exposed to real language rather than artificial texts and made-up examples. Teachers and researchers can also begin to explore some of the more subtle areas of language use where our intuitions often lead us in the wrong direction. In this review, I will take a close look at WordSmith Tools (Version 3) and MonoConc Pro (Version 2), two of the more readily available and reasonably priced packages for working with corpora, in order t