Using a Corpus in Language Teaching
Authors: Michael McCarthy
Type: PDF
Year: 2004
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CALPER Professional Development Document
In this document, Michael McCarthy describes what a corpus (plural: corpora) is and which kinds of questions it can help answer. He also explains how frequency lists and collocations generated from a corpus constitute powerful analytical tools for those researching language and language teaching. McCarthy concludes by offering practical applications of corpus in language teaching and his thoughts on the future directions for corpus linguistics.
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