CORPUS LINGUISTICS OF MATERIALS AND APPLICATIONS IN TEACHING, LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to review some relevant factors related to the corpus and its using in english teaching. First we describe some definitions of corpus and its development in linguistics, especially in context of Vietnam (it is called corpus linguistics). Then, we attempt to present some tools for exploiting the corpus called concordance such as Antconc, Corpus, Concordance, etc... They are useful in using the electric corpora. Finally, we outline the implementation of Corpus in english learning and teaching in EFL class.