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This 50 page article, which was referenced in DuBravac (2013), provides a very thorough overview of corpus linguistics and concordancing for language classes. There is a ton of very relevant and practical information here! This link defaults to a section providing sample classroom corpus activities. My favorite uses a corpus for Tennyson's poem Mariana as a way to engage in literary analysis! Corpus Linguistics, which is dealt with by Tony McEnery & Andrew Wilson inModule 3.4. Section 2.2 of this module includes a brief introduction to corpus linguistics.

This is a free concordancing program that you can use for your own work or with students. Other paid concordancers include MonoConc (http://www.athel.com/mono.html) and Wordsmith (http://www.lexically.net/wordsmith/)

The quizzes on this site make use of concordance lines to help learners practice vocabulary in the K1 & K2 frequency bands.

This is a free program (for Windows only) that easily allows you to input text and find N-grams and phrase frames. This might be useful for teachers who want to be able to look for these features in the texts their class will be reading, for example. Although concordancing software such as Antconc can do the same thing, this program is nice for someone who doesn't need all the other functionality of a program like Antconc.

A complete website for learning and learning about English words. You can test your vocabulary level, then work on the words at the level where you are weak. Use wordlists, online concordancer and dictionary, texts, and a database to store your work and view the work of others.