YouTube is a website where one can watch and share short videos (for web address,
see page 218). Most YouTube videos are available to anyone who has a high-speed
connection to the Internet. The range of topics is vast, including actual videos from
language classrooms, lectures, and small vignettes from everyday life.
Wiki
A wiki is a quick way of being able to create and edit web-documents. Wikis are very
useful in collaborative writing tasks, and they are very good for highlighting and
observing the process of writing.
Electronic Text Corpus
An electronic text corpus is a collection of authentic spoken and written texts, often
consisting of thousands, if not millions, of words. The corpus is computer-searchable.
A teacher or a student can find many instances of a particular word or phrase as it is
used in a sentence. The instances can then be analyzed for the form, meaning, and use
of a word or expression, its frequency, and for what precedes and what follows it in a
sentence.