Corpus linguistics refers to large collections of natural language texts that can be analyzed using computational techniques. Creating corpora involves collecting and transcribing written or spoken texts, which is time-consuming. Well known corpora include the British National Corpus and the Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen Corpus. There are different types of corpora depending on the research questions or topics being investigated. Analyzing corpora can provide insights into patterns of language use across different text types and contexts. Teachers and material developers can use corpus analyses to inform instruction and claims about linguistic features.

1. Jessica Elaine Cavazos Babcock

2. means to explore actual patterns of language use and as a tool for
developing materials for classroom language instruction. Corpus
linguistics provides an extremely powerful tool for the analysis of
natural language and can provide tremendous insights as to how
language use varies in different situations, such as spoken versus
written or formal interactions versus casual conversation.

3. refers to a large principled collection of natural texts. The process of creating
written transcripts of spoken language can be quite time – consuming,
involving a series of choices based on research interests of the corpus
compilers. There are a number of existing corpora that are valuable resources
for investigating types of language questions. Some well known: BNC, LOB,
ETC. The linguistic features or research questions being investigated will shape
the collection of texts used in creating the corpus.

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There are many types of corpora as there are research
topics in linguistics General corpora Specialized
corpora Learners corpus

5. When creating a corpus , data collection involves obtaining or
creating electronic versions of the target texts. Written data are
far less labor than spoken corpora. The data collection phase of
building a spoken corpus is lengthy and expensive. Most spoken
corpora use orthographic transcription system that does not
attempt to capture prosodic details or phonetic variation.

6. Analyses can explore individual lexical or linguistic
features across texts or identify clusters of features hat
characterize particular registers.

7. Teachers and material writers can have a basis for
selecting the material that is presented and for that
claims that are being made for linguistics features.

8. It can be brought by two ways. First teachers can shape
instruction based on corpus based information, the
other way is by having learners interact with corpora.