If you are on #corpusmooc you may be interested in having a chance to win Discovering English with SketchEngine by James Thomas more details - https://plus.google.com/+MuraNava/posts/AmEcrQGE1Ji
Nice tool to visualise collocational networks
Get tool from - http://www.extremetomato.com/projects/graphcoll/
and help file pdf from - http://corpora.lancs.ac.uk/stats/docs/graphcoll_manual.pdf
post mentions TED corpus search engine and demo of Guy Aston's TED corpus running on WordSmith
https://eflnotes.wordpress.com/2014/12/06/guy-aston-talks-speech-corpora/
exciting possibilities for specialised corpora:
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In about 5-6 weeks I'll be releasing a corpus that is based on the 2 billion words (4.5 million articles) in Wikipedia, which should do most of what you want. Via the web interface, you'll be able to quickly and easily create...
回复: Early findings from the BNC2014 project
there are some more details about BNC14 initial results here -
https://plus.google.com/104940199413423400545/posts/1HGHyCeHMt8
i'll copy/paste as i know google not often accessible from china:
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#BNC14 media...
回复: Free access to ReCALL Special issue on corpora in language teaching
hi please find missing paper here https://googledrive.com/host/0B7FW2BYaBgeiUHk4WDkxS1ZSTUU/Zeping_Huang-The_effects_of_paper_based_DDL_on_the_acquisition_of_lexico_grammatical_patterns_in_L2_writing.pdf
回复: Futurelearn?
you need to use the futurelearn site
also according to tony mcenery this is not a pass/fail kinda course so timewise/internet connection problems should not be an issue
hope that helps with your question :)