Incorporating corpora in ELT

Incorporating corpora in ELT, Atsuko Furuta Umesaki, 10.25-10.55, Tuesday 19th April

For non-native English speakers, corpora are significant resources to get access to native speakers' use of English.

Atsuko Furuta incorporated corpora into English classes to enhance learners' ability to find answers to their own queries about English autonomously, which facilitated discovery learning.

By using corpora, she stated that her learners could not only learn collocations and formulaic expression, but also noticed grammatical rules of English. 

Some resources for corpora are listed below:

• The British Nationa Corpus www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk  
• Corpus of Contemporary American English www.americancorpus.org
• Sketch Engine www.sketchengine.co.uk
• Web Concordancer www.edict.com.hk/concordance  

Her students enjoyed using corpora and learning real-life English. More importantly, they developed confidence in writing and speaking. I hope that your students will make the most of using corpora, too!