Corpus Research Applications in Second Language Teaching

International Journal of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics, 2020

Over the past few decades, corpora have not only revolutionized linguistic research but have also had an impact on second language learning and teaching. In the field of applied linguistics, more and more researchers and practitioners treasure what corpus linguistics has to offer to language pedagogy. Still, corpora and corpus tools have yet to be widely implemented in pedagogical contexts. The aim of this article is to provide an overview of pedagogical corpus applications and to review recent publications in the area of corpus linguistics and language teaching. It covers indirect corpus applications, such as in syllabus or materials design, as well as direct applications of corpora in the second language classroom. The article aims to illustrate how both general and specialized language corpora can be used in these applications and discusses directions for future research in applied corpus linguistics.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2023

This project is the result of an effort to introduce corpus linguistics tools and techniques to pre-service teachers. All chapters in this Open Educational Resource (OER), with the exception of the tutorials, were written by undergraduate students in TESOL and Linguistics, who had no previous knowledge of corpus linguistics before working on this project. Our hope is that with this OER, we can inspire other in-and pre-service teachers who are new to corpus linguistics to develop their own pedagogical materials using corpora. But, let's start from the beginning: What's corpus linguistics? Corpus linguistics is a research methodology that involves the analysis of large collections of language data, or corpora, in order to identify patterns and regularities in language use. Since the late 80s and early 90s, linguists have suggested that corpus tools have the potential to revolutionize language teaching (see Johns, 1986; Rundell & Stock, 1992; Johns, 1991; among others). These researchers point out a number of advantages to using corpus in the classroom, including: • Authenticity: Corpora allows students to explore natural language data.

Corpus linguistics is a new branch of linguistics but its status is still debatable-either as a theory or a methodology. This article aims to give an overview of the different approaches and perspectives of corpus linguistics. The neo-Firthians contend that corpus linguistics is a method, while other prominent corpus linguists claim that it is a theory. Other corpus linguists believe that corpus linguistics can be both a methodology as well as a theory depending on the extent and purposes it is used for. The applicability of corpus linguistics as a methodology is observed in English Language Teaching and Learning (ELT). Learner corpora are used extensively in second language pedagogy and research as either direct approach involving Data-Driven Learning (DDL) where students participated as researchers and worked directly with corpora or indirect approach where corpus is used as a research method in producing dictionaries, syllabuses, textbooks, and teaching materials.

Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta, 2021

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 handouts in the classroom.

2013

This paper aims at contextualizing and presenting the first volume of the journal Research in Corpus Linguistics and is, therefore, divided into two main parts. First of all, it provides an introduction to the field of corpus linguistics and its increasingly relevant role in language teaching and learning. Secondly, it briefly introduces and discusses the six articles of the volume. Stemming from oral presentations delivered at the 4th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2012, Jaén, Spain), these articles have a number of features in common. They all make extensive use of corpora and at the same time deal with language teaching and language learning, the underlying assumption being that a genuine and mutually beneficial connection can be established between teaching and research. For this reason, each of them constitutes an illustrative sample of how different corpora can be exploited for different research purposes.

TESOL Quarterly, 2019

Aleph: Langues, Médias & Sociétés, 2022

The relevance of corpus linguistics in language teaching and learning has witnessed challenging views in academia. This paper discusses the feasibility of its implementation as an educational, pedagogic, and academic requirement in language education. The claim made here is that corpus linguistics is not merely a globalisation trend, but it may prove an indispensable tool encompassing countless applications for learners, teachers, and resarchers alike even in less technology-based educational contexts.

English Journal, 2020

This research is about Corpus Linguistics, Language Corpora, And Language Teaching. As we know about this science is relatively new and is associated with technology. There are several areas discussed in this study such as several important parts of the corpus, the information generated in the corpus, four main characteristics of the corpus, Types of Corpora, Corpora in Language Teaching, several types that could be related to corpus research, Applications of corpus linguistics to language teaching may be direct or indirect. The field of applied linguistics analyses large collections of written and spoken texts, which have been carefully designed to represent specific domains of language use, such as informal speech or academic writing.

2006

Abstract: Despite the progress that has been made in the field of corpus linguistics and language teaching, the practice of ELT has so far been largely unaffected by the advances of corpus research, and corpora and concordances are hardly used in the German EFL classroom. This article aims to take stock of developments in this area and formulates tasks for the future of pedagogical corpus applications.