Master Authentic British English: Analyse Your Text with Text Inspector’s BNC Feature.

Compare your language to real British usage patterns. Discover authentic vocabulary and grammar, and refine your writing for clarity, accuracy, and natural impact.

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Common Challenges, Solved: How Text Inspector’s BNC Feature Helps You

English Teaching Professionals

Do you want your students to master authentic British English? Are you struggling to find relevant teaching materials that reflect genuine usage?

Text Inspector’s BNC feature provides concrete data on real native usage patterns for vocabulary and grammar. This enables you to provide clear, evidence-based instruction that helps students achieve truly natural and idiomatic expression, moving beyond textbook examples.

Exam Boards, Language Centres, and Organisations

Are you developing training materials or critical communications for a global workforce learning English? Do you need to ensure your message is universally understood?

Text Inspector’s KVL feature analyzes your text against specialized vocabulary lists for Spanish, German, and Chinese L1s, helping you choose words more likely to be understood by international audiences, enhancing clarity and effectiveness.

Unveiling the BNC: Text Inspector’s Feature Breakdown

British National Corpus Access

Access a vast collection of authentic British English. Analyse your text against over 100 million words of real-world written and spoken language from the BNC.

Word Frequency Analysis

Discover precise word usage patterns. See how frequently each word in your text appears in the BNC, identifying common, uncommon, and even unique British English usage.

Contextual Examples

Explore words in real-world contexts. Delve into authentic examples from the BNC to understand how words are genuinely used, grasping their true meanings and nuanced applications.

Comparison with American English

Compare usage across English varieties. Analyse your text against both British (BNC) and American (COCA) English corpora, highlighting key differences and variations in word use.

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How does it work?

Paste Your Text

Simply copy and paste your English content into Text Inspector.

Analyse Your Text

Instantly receive in-depth insights into your text’s linguistic features.

Interpret and Optimise

Use data-driven results to inform your decisions and refine your language.

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Bringing British English to the Classroom: How BNC Analysis Enhances Teaching and Learning

Teach Genuine British English Usage

The BNC lets you see how native speakers really use words and phrases, beyond textbook rules. This helps you teach authentic vocabulary and grammar, making students sound more like native speakers.

Create Authentic & Relevant Materials

Build engaging lessons with real-world language. Select and create texts, dialogues, and exercises. This ensures your materials reflect genuine contemporary British English, making learning more relevant and engaging.

Address Nuances of Vocabulary & Collocation

Go deeper than definitions when teaching vocabulary. Show students which words naturally go together (collocations) and how they’re used in different situations. This leads to more precise and natural word choice.

Differentiate for Naturalness & Fluency

Guide students from ‘correct’ to ‘natural’ English. By comparing student work to BNC data, you can spot where their language sounds a bit off. This helps you give targeted advice for better fluency and more idiomatic expression.

Master BNC: Real-World British English

Standardise Exam Authenticity

Ensure your assessments reflect real-world British English. Use BNC to objectively verify that vocabulary, grammar, and phrasing in exam questions and passages truly align with authentic native usage.

Validate Curriculum Relevance

Confirm your teaching materials are genuinely current. Analyse course content against BNC data to ensure the language taught is relevant, natural, and contemporary British English, boosting learner engagement.

Develop Reliable Placement Tests

Create placement tests that accurately gauge authentic proficiency. Benchmark vocabulary and grammatical patterns in test items against BNC to ensure precise and fair assessment of British English knowledge.

Enhance Professional Communication Standards

Refine organisational communications for global clarity. Use BNC to ensure reports, policy documents, and public statements adhere to authentic, natural British English, enhancing professional credibility.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the BNC?

The British National Corpus (BNC) is a vast collection of written and spoken British English, used to analyse real-world language usage.

How can the BNC feature help me improve my writing?

By analysing your text against the BNC, you can identify potential vocabulary and usage issues, ensuring your writing is clear, accurate, and aligned with British English conventions.

Is the BNC feature only useful for British English?

While it focuses on British English, the BNC feature also allows you to compare your text with American English, providing a broader understanding of language variation.

How does BNC analysis assist in creating authentic teaching materials or assessments?

BNC analysis helps you objectively verify the authenticity of language in your materials. By showing real-world usage patterns, it ensures your texts, exercises, and exam items reflect genuine, contemporary British English, enhancing relevance and credibility.

Why Professionals Use Text Inspector

In my role as an academic at Universidad de Santiago, Chile, I have found Text Inspector to be an invaluable resource in my academic activities. This tool offers a great range of functionalities that significantly enhance both teaching and research activities. Primarily, Text Inspector serves as a powerful instrument for identifying and analyzing linguistic patterns in student writing. Its lexical diversity and error detection features provide insightful feedback, allowing me to define areas where students can enhance their academic writing skills.

José Luis Poblete

Adjunct Professor Universidad de Santiago, Chile

I have used Text Inspector since 2018 when I embarked on a research project examining reading texts to develop CEFR aligned reading tests. Using TI tool to help guage the reading level of each texts made it easy for my team to select and determine texts that are appropriate for each CEFR level A1-C2. We especially appreciate the text analysis tools that helped us to distinguish each level of text type from that of another level at a deeper level compared to other available text analysis tools.

I am an item writer for a number of exam boards that offer exams in English as a second or foreign language. Text Inspector has become an indispensable tool for me in creating test items appropriate for different language levels and age ranges. It is easy and quick to use, and allows differentiation by language skills required and a flexible approach to reporting. I can unreservedly recommend it to those who work in exam preparation.

Martin Eayrs

Freelance Consultant in English Language Teaching and Education

Text inspector was crucial to identifying reading ease as well as CEFR levels for when we were writing reading comprehension assessments. I was able to enter lengthy texts and look at the data. I always have my own idea of what a text level is and found that the text inspector confirmed this. Included in the data was a breakdown of lexis CEFR levels and this was extremely useful as I was able to use this data to explain to colleagues why some texts we wanted to use were either suitable or unsuitable for assessments.