Useful links

Links to related projects and corpus query tools

• Sketch Engine: information about the corpus research tool
• BAWE in Sketch Engine: BAWE in the Sketch Engine corpus research tool
• BASE corpus: information about the British Academic Spoken English corpus
• Scientext : a corpus of French and English scientific texts, including 300 argumentative texts written by French students of English (1.1 million words).
• Michigan Corpus of Upper-Level Student Papers : about 830 papers (roughly 2.6 million words) from a range of disciplines
• Varieties of English for Specific Purposes dAtabase (VESPA)  : a learner corpus under development at the University of Louvain. The VESPA macros and Perl scripts are largely based on the macros developed by Alois Heuboeck for the BAWE corpus

For further research relating to the use of English  in Higher Education see the website for the ELPHE Applied Research Group.