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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