CORPUS-BASED APPROACH IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Abstract

Corpora of written and oral texts are now successfully used in foreign language teaching and language pedagogy. This article focuses on the Corpus-Based Approach and its application in teaching foreign languages. The Corpus-Based Approach is focused on the empirical study of language, its functioning in real, authentic situations and texts, which is important for language teaching. Additionally, the article identifies the types of corpora that can be used in the process of teaching foreign languages, and provides examples of corpora which are available to foreign language teachers. Besides, this article examines the practical use of parallel corpora in language teaching and translation, as well as educational corpora in studies related to problems of foreign language acquisition. The paper also reveals the effectiveness of using corpus software such as concordance programs in linguistic tasks, including “automatic learning” of foreign languages.