Compleat Lexical Tutor

When I first arrived at the Compleat Lexical Tutor at http://www.lextutor.ca/the aesthetic of the site put me off a bit, but after revisiting the site after hearing Professor Harrington's talk about lexical processing I started to get it. The interface is a bit clunky and the tool is not for the language student but for the language instructor. I would think you would need a reasonable background in SLA theory to make full use of the site. Items like the Reaction Time Instrument Builder don't make sense to your average teacher unless you've heard Harrington talk about the correlation between response times and global language ability. Given the limited information on the site, would you even know to use non-words when you are setting up your test? I won't go into details at this point. I invite you to check it out. It does include tools like a concordancer, a page that allows you to locate collocations in any input text, and a page that will search any text for the number and kinds of word families used. This is not for those who are looking for a quick activity or exercise, but for those who want tools to look at the underbelly of the texts they use it is an interesting resource.