Master Authentic American English: Analyze Your Text with Text Inspector’s COCA.

Compare your language to the vast Corpus of Contemporary American English. Discover authentic usage patterns and refine your writing for clarity, accuracy, and impact.

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Common Challenges, Solved: How Text Inspector’s COCA Feature Helps you

English Teaching Professionals

Do you want to expose students to real American English? Do you need a reliable tool to help them understand contemporary language patterns?

Text Inspector’s COCA feature allows you to analyze texts against a massive database of American English, providing invaluable insights into current word frequency, context, and usage variations. This helps you guide students to develop a deeper understanding of genuine American English and refine their writing skills to sound more natural.

Exam Boards, Language Centers, and Organizations

Do you want to ensure your assessments and communications align with American English? Do you need to identify potential usage issues for US audiences?

Text Inspector’s COCA feature analyzes your content against a comprehensive database of contemporary American English usage. This helps you ensure linguistic accuracy, clarity, and cultural appropriateness for your US-based employees, test-takers, and target audiences, enhancing credibility and understanding.

Unveiling COCA: Text Inspector’s Feature Breakdown

Corpus of Contemporary American English Access

Access a vast collection of authentic American English. Analyze your text against a 1.1-billion-word corpus of real-world written and spoken American English.

Word Frequency Analysis

Discover precise word usage patterns. See how frequently each word in your text appears in COCA, identifying common, uncommon, and unique American English usage.

Contextual Examples

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

Comparison with British English

Compare usage across English varieties. Analyze your text’s usage against both American (COCA) and British (BNC) English corpora, highlighting key differences and variations.

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How does it work?

Paste Your Text

Simply copy and paste your English content into Text Inspector.

Analyze Your Text

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

Interpret and Optimize

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

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Bringing American English to the Classroom: How COCA Analysis Enhances Teaching and Learning

Authentic Language Exposure

Expose students to real-world American English usage, enabling them to encounter and understand language beyond outdated textbook examples.

Vocabulary Development

Help students expand their vocabulary by showing them how words are actually used in diverse American English contexts, promoting natural and accurate word choice.

Cultural Awareness

Develop students’ understanding of American English language and culture by exploring how words and phrases are used in various authentic social and media contexts.

Writing Skills Enhancement

Improve students’ writing accuracy, clarity, and style by providing authentic usage patterns from COCA for comparison, helping them refine their own output.

COCA: Authentic American English for Professional Standards

Standardise American English Assessments

Ensure exam and assessment content reflects authentic American English. Use COCA to objectively benchmark vocabulary and grammar, guaranteeing fair and relevant testing against current U.S. usage.

Validate Curriculum for US Contexts

Confirm teaching materials are genuinely American. Analyze course content against COCA data to ensure the language taught is contemporary, natural, and culturally appropriate for US-focused learners.

Develop Reliable Placement Tests

Create placement tests that accurately gauge American English proficiency. Benchmark vocabulary and grammatical patterns in test items against COCA for precise and fair assessment.

Enhance Global Communication (US Focus)

Refine organizational communications for US audiences. Use COCA to ensure reports, policies, and marketing materials adhere to authentic, contemporary American English, enhancing credibility and reach.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is COCA?

The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is a vast collection of written and spoken American English, used to analyze real-world language usage.

How can the COCA feature help me improve my writing?

By analyzing your text against COCA, you can identify potential vocabulary and usage issues, ensuring your writing is clear, accurate, and aligned with American English conventions.

Is the COCA feature only useful for American English?

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

How does COCA’s contemporary and diverse usage benefit language learning and assessment?

COCA provides access to the most current American English across various genres (spoken, academic, web). This allows educators to teach up-to-date usage and helps organizations validate that assessment materials reflect modern language use.

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.