In classes of English as a foreign language, an important feature for developing the grammatical competence of the students is to provide them with a sufficient amount of language samples. This is done in order to all...In classes of English as a foreign language, an important feature for developing the grammatical competence of the students is to provide them with a sufficient amount of language samples. This is done in order to allow the learners to gain more insight into the language structure and use, on the basis of which they can come to generalisations and formulate rules of grammar. Corpus-based language teaching and learning equips learners with knowledge and skills that can be used for this purpose. The advantage of using language corpora as teaching and learning materials is that they provide examples of authentic language. The chosen or built corpus is usually large enough to enable the learner to find a sufficient number of examples of a word or phrase in a context which is presented in an electronic form. As language corpora offer some obvious didactic advantages, they are becoming more and more popular among foreign language teachers and learners. The corpus is usually subjected to a concordance analysis which means using analytical software （a concordancer） to find the occurrences of a particular word or phrase in a text or in a compilation of texts. The aim of this paper is to present the possibilities which the use of a language corpus in combination with concordancing software give to teachers in their designing of language learning tasks After some brief theoretical foundations about the usefulness of concordancing, the paper presents the author＇s experience in the application of these tools in the classroom展开更多
文摘In classes of English as a foreign language, an important feature for developing the grammatical competence of the students is to provide them with a sufficient amount of language samples. This is done in order to allow the learners to gain more insight into the language structure and use, on the basis of which they can come to generalisations and formulate rules of grammar. Corpus-based language teaching and learning equips learners with knowledge and skills that can be used for this purpose. The advantage of using language corpora as teaching and learning materials is that they provide examples of authentic language. The chosen or built corpus is usually large enough to enable the learner to find a sufficient number of examples of a word or phrase in a context which is presented in an electronic form. As language corpora offer some obvious didactic advantages, they are becoming more and more popular among foreign language teachers and learners. The corpus is usually subjected to a concordance analysis which means using analytical software （a concordancer） to find the occurrences of a particular word or phrase in a text or in a compilation of texts. The aim of this paper is to present the possibilities which the use of a language corpus in combination with concordancing software give to teachers in their designing of language learning tasks After some brief theoretical foundations about the usefulness of concordancing, the paper presents the author＇s experience in the application of these tools in the classroom
