Corpus for Classrooms : Ideas for Material Design
In this paper, the researchers will quide the readers on how corpora can help students understand how contain language forms are used by native speakers of English, They will give a briefly review on studies discussing the benefits and the challenges of using corpus in language learning. The researcher will then go through some corpus-based materials and activities suitable for different language levels.
In the first part of the paper is a brief review of literature that mainly aims at showing how other researchers went about using corpora in their language classrooms and how effective that was. The researchers also point out other elements that affect the use of corpus such as the role of the teacher and the challenges that face both students and teachers when using corpora.
As for the second part of the paper, the researchers present a number of ideas for planning corpus-based activities. Those activities are tailored so that they meet the different language abilities of students in L2 classroom. The researchers will demonstrate how vocabulary, grammar, idiomatic expressions and pragmatic constraints could be covered in EFL classroom using corpus-based resources.
Corpus-based Activities and Idea for Material Design
Elementary
- Verb pairing
- Computer cloze activity
- Screen shot analysis
Intermediate students : Modal verbs
- Contextual Analysis
- Cloze activities
- Spot the error activity
- Express yourself
Upper intermediate student : Phrasal Verb
- Cloze activity
Advanced students : Idiomatic Analysis
- Concordance Analysis
- Pragmatics : Situation analysis
Although using corpora in language teaching is challenging, it has a big potential in EFL classrooms. If teachers are trained on how to design suitable corpus-base tasks, they can help their students get exposed to a broader framework of how English is used for communication by native speaker. Certain points to bear in mind while designing corpus-base tasks include the ability level of the student, cultural and educational backgrounds and the age group of the students. It is also recommended to use online corpora as they are available for anybody at any given time. In class a specialized corpus is needed, EFL instructors and researchers next plan is to examine some of the activities listed above using a more in-depth approach to highlight the benefits, challenges and drawbacks of each.
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