LANGUAGE TEACHING BEFORE AND AFTER 'DIGITALIZED CORPORA'. THREE MAIN ISSUES

Authors

  • Aquilino Sánchez

Keywords:

vocabulary lists, concordances, language teaching, computer-aided language teaching, lexical constellations

Abstract

Digitalized corpora are becoming increasingly important for linguistic research and are already well know by some language teachers. The power of PCs and Internet will soon them more popular and accessible to everybody. This paper will attempt of pointing out the role that corpora might play as complementary tools for language teaching in three areas: vocabulary list, concordances and constellation of words. None of theme is completely novel and they have been already present in language teaching materials in one way or another Modern digitalized corpora constitute a powerful tool and allow for more varied, reliable, refined and easy to get materials in the three fields mentioned. In one of them specifically, the constellation of words more, more research and practical work is still needed in order to bring the results closer to textbooks authors and teachers.

Author Biography

Aquilino Sánchez

Departamento de Filología Inglesa Universidad de Murcia

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