Discovering English with Sketch Engine

Discovering English with Sketch Engine is intended primarily for students and teachers of English as a foreign language. It is a workbook with several aims that run in parallel as the reader undertakes guided discovery tasks. In the process of exploring over three hundred language questions?, the reader acquires the skills necessary for exploiting Sketch Engine. The tasks cover and uncover aspects of vocabulary, grammar, stylistics, discourse and pragmatics. At the core of the language work lies patterns of normal usage. There are two indices: Index of Names and Notions and the Word Focus Index.

Sketch Engine is online software that combines a specialised search engine and many corpora in many languages. The data returned from searches can be presented as concordance lines, collocation lists, word sketches, bundles and chunks. The data processing can be at all levels: letters, morphemes, words, clauses, phrases, chunks, sentences and text.

It used by language students and teachers, by translators, editors, lexicographers, grammarians and other working in various linguistic fields. Sketch Engine was developed with lexicography in mind and is used by some of the world's major dictionary publishers. This makes it entirely compatible with the lexical focus in contemporary language education, and an ideal vehicle for learning language and about language.

Discovering English with Sketch Engine takes its readers on a voyage of guided discovery that ultimately equips them with the knowledge and skills to formulate, ask and solve language queries. This is a skill for life.