{"id":615,"date":"2021-02-16T20:44:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T20:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/?page_id=615"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:52:54","slug":"pgcert-in-corpus-linguistics-distance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/pgcert-in-corpus-linguistics-distance\/","title":{"rendered":"PGcert Corpus Linguistics (online)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Come and study corpus linguistics with us at Lancaster! We are very excited to offer a <strong>Postgraduate Certificate in Corpus Linguistics (online) <\/strong>at Lancaster University. It\u00a0is <strong>an online programme<\/strong>, whose main aim is to equip students with core skills that will allow them to analyse large amounts of linguistic data (corpora) using cutting-edge computational technology. Students will also learn about the structure of the English language. You can find out more about the course <span style=\"color: #993300\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/study\/postgraduate\/postgraduate-courses\/corpus-linguistics-online-pgcert\/2026\/\">on this webpage<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Lancaster University, with a specialised corpus research centre &#8211; The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, CASS &#8211; is one of the world leaders in corpus linguistics. We build corpora such as the British National Corpus 2014 and the Trinity Lancaster Corpus, and develop innovative corpus tools such as #LancsBox, Lancaster Stats Tools online and CQPweb. In 2015, Lancaster University was awarded the Queen\u2019s Anniversary Prize for innovative corpus linguistic research. During your studies, you will learn from experts in the field and will be given access to a wealth of corpus resources. You will be able to acquire core skills in corpus linguistics and data analysis, which will help you grow professionally.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-871 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_task1-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_task1-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_task1-676x428.jpg 676w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_task1.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-823 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Fundamentals_Pragmatics-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Fundamentals_Pragmatics-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Fundamentals_Pragmatics-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Fundamentals_Pragmatics-676x418.jpg 676w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Fundamentals_Pragmatics.jpg 824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-820 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Fundamentals_LB-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Fundamentals_LB-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Fundamentals_LB-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Fundamentals_LB-676x455.jpg 676w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Fundamentals_LB.jpg 949w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-819 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Fundamentals_castle-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Fundamentals_castle-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Fundamentals_castle-768x467.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Fundamentals_castle-676x411.jpg 676w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Fundamentals_castle.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Course structure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">You will study the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"module-accordion\" style=\"text-align: justify\" role=\"tablist\" data-accordion=\"\" data-allow-all-closed=\"true\" data-multi-expand=\"true\" data-n=\"1i4yfl-n\">\n<li class=\"accordion-item is-active\" data-accordion-item=\"\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Fundamentals of corpus linguistics.<\/span>\u00a0The module offers a practical introduction to key corpus linguistic techniques such as concordance analysis, the analysis of wordlists and ngram lists, keyword analysis and collocation analysis. It also provides an overview of practical applications of corpus methods in a wide range of areas of linguistic and social research. This is the core module.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You will then choose one other optional module to complete the PgCert:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"bullet\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Corpus design, construction and annotation<\/span>:\u00a0The module develops key skills in corpus design and data collection. Building on a long tradition of corpus development at Lancaster University and providing specific examples from recent projects such as the <em>British National Corpus 2014<\/em>, the Guangwai<em> Lancaster Corpus<\/em> of L2 Chinese or the <em>Trinity Lancaster Corpus<\/em>, the module offers both theoretical knowledge and practical skills for the students to be able to build their own corpus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Corpus data analysis<\/span>: research design, statistics and data visualisation: The module offers a practical introduction to the statistical procedures used for the analysis linguistic data and language corpora. The module provides an overview of the main statistical procedures (e.g. Correlation, cluster analysis and factor analysis, T-test, ANOVA, chi-squared test and regression models) used in the field of corpus linguistics together with examples of application of these methods.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"module-accordion\" style=\"text-align: justify\" role=\"tablist\" data-accordion=\"\" data-allow-all-closed=\"true\" data-multi-expand=\"true\" data-n=\"1i4yfl-n\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Corpora and new technologies in language teaching<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Corpus-based discourse analysis<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-867 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_corpus-as-sample-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_corpus-as-sample-300x171.jpg 300w, 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https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_how-add-annotation.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/> \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-865 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_copyright-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_copyright-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_copyright-768x436.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_copyright-676x384.jpg 676w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_copyright.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-864 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_building-written-corpora-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_building-written-corpora-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_building-written-corpora-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_building-written-corpora-676x385.jpg 676w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_building-written-corpora.jpg 811w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-869 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_corpusdesign-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_corpusdesign-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_corpusdesign-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_corpusdesign-676x385.jpg 676w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Design_corpusdesign.jpg 809w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">After completing the course, you will have <strong>the option to continue onto the MA in Corpus linguistics and PgDip in Corpus Linguistics<\/strong> by taking further courses and writing a dissertation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">If you have any questions about the programme, please get in touch with us at pgadmissions@lancaster.ac.uk or you can email the Programme Director Dr Dana Gablasova (d.gablasova@lancaster.ac.uk) with your questions or to book a slot for an online chat.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-861\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/CASS_PBbook-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/CASS_PBbook-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/CASS_PBbook.jpg 556w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 141px) 100vw, 141px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-856\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/CASS_CLbook.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"211\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-859\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/CASS_Stats-book.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"211\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-891\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Books_metaphor-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Books_metaphor-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Books_metaphor.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 141px) 100vw, 141px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-894\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Books_online-comm-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Books_online-comm-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Books_online-comm.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 145px) 100vw, 145px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-896\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Fundamental-principles-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Fundamental-principles-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Fundamental-principles.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 143px) 100vw, 143px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-888\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Books_Discourse-analysis-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"137\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Books_Discourse-analysis-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Books_Discourse-analysis.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 137px) 100vw, 137px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000\"><a style=\"color: #800000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/linguistics\/\">The Department of Linguistics and English Language (LAEL)<\/a><\/span><\/strong> in Lancaster is the largest linguistics department in the UK, with a range of expertise, active research environment and a strong community of around 140 PhD students. The department is also among the top linguistics departments in the world as well as in the UK. In the 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topuniversities.com\/university-rankings\/university-subject-rankings\/2020\/linguistics\">QS World University<\/a> rankings by subject Linguistics at Lancaster was ranked 3rd in the world. We have now been in the top 20 in the world for seven years in a row. Linguistics at Lancaster is also consistently ranked in the top 10 in the UK. We are ranked 2nd in the UK by 2024 Times Good University Guide and 3rd in the 2024 <span style=\"color: #800000\"><a style=\"color: #800000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk\/league-tables\/rankings\/linguistics\">Complete University Guide<\/a><\/span>. The Linguistics department is also home to the <span style=\"color: #800000\"><a style=\"color: #800000\" href=\"http:\/\/cass.lancs.ac.uk\"><strong>ESRC-funded Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science<\/strong><\/a>,<\/span> one of world-leading centres in corpora development and corpus linguistics, a recipient of the Queen&#8217;s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">To read more about the department, please visit:<span style=\"color: #800000\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/linguistics\/\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/linguistics\/<\/span>\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-187\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpusforschools\/files\/2018\/09\/JKP-120320-5890-1350-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-215\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpusforschools\/files\/2018\/09\/JKP-141127-8891-1350-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"163\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-213\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpusforschools\/files\/2018\/09\/JKP-140618-5809-1350-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"164\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-925\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Complete-University-Ranking-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Complete-University-Ranking-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Complete-University-Ranking-768x429.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Complete-University-Ranking-676x378.jpg 676w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/files\/2023\/12\/Complete-University-Ranking.jpg 958w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come and study corpus linguistics with us at Lancaster! We are very excited to offer a Postgraduate Certificate in Corpus Linguistics (online) at Lancaster University. It\u00a0is an online programme, whose main aim is to equip students with core skills that will allow them to analyse large amounts of linguistic data (corpora) using cutting-edge computational technology. 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