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Unit C1 Exploring grammar in conversation
Information about the TRAINS Dialogue Corpus and downloadable transcripts are available at: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/research/cisd/resources/trains.html
For additional texts and transcripts online you can search: www.humbul.ac.uk

Unit C2 Exploring grammar in institutional contexts
Information about the Corpus of Spoken Professional American-English, including a downloadable sample of the corpus is available at: http://www.athel.com/cspa.html

Unit C3 Exploring grammar in academic writing
An additional area of investigation is to compare grammatical features in different parts of the same type of academic text. For example, you could gather a few examples of research articles from one discipline (even from one journal) which have a general organisation ‘Introduction- Methods – Results – Discussion’. Can you identify grammatical features that seem to be more common in one section rather than others? Why should this be so?

Unit C4 Exploring grammar in computer-mediated conversation
The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication is available online at http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/ The website has many links to other sites of interest.

Unit C5 Exploring grammar in ‘little texts’
Here are some more suggested ‘little texts’ you could explore: job advertisements, descriptions of accommodation in holiday brochures, horoscopes, radio advertisements, quotations and sayings, or proverbs.

Unit C6 Exploring grammar in the language of children
You can find samples of the writing of British children aged between 9 and 11 at http://bowland-files.lancs.ac.uk/lever/index.htm which is the home page of the Lancaster Corpus of Children's Project Writing (LCCPW)

Unit C7 Exploring grammar in second-language learning
Information and links to learner corpora around the world can be found at Yukio Tono’s website: http://leo.meikai.ac.jp/~tono/

Unit C8 Exploring grammar and gender
Useful information and links to resources can be found at the home page of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA): http://www.stanford.edu/group/igala

Unit C9 Exploring grammar in varieties of English
Information about the Corpus of Written British Creole is available at: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/mark/corpus.htm.$$$