USING CORPORA IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING – A BRIEF OVERVIEW AND SAMPLE CORPUS-BASED ACTIVITIES
USING CORPORA IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING – A BRIEF OVERVIEW AND SAMPLE CORPUS-BASED ACTIVITIES

Summary/Abstract: Corpus linguistics has seen an expansion in scope over the past several decades. It has also found its way into language classrooms. Corpus-based approaches have gradually become a common practice among English teachers. Some research studies have established that corpus-based approaches are extremely beneficial to both teacher and learner. Aiming to illustrate how corpora can be used in English language teaching, this paper offers brief explanations of what corpora is, elaborating on the most relevant advantages of such an application in language classroom in terms of the teacher’s role and learners’ autonomy, motivation, self-reflection. Finally, the paper offers sample corpus-based activities (with concordances from COCA and BNC) that teachers can use printed out as hand-outs in the classroom.

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