The document discusses the use of corpora in English language teaching (ELT). It defines a corpus as a large, principled collection of naturally occurring language stored electronically. It describes different types of corpora such as general, specialized, learner, native speaker, and annotated corpora. It explains how corpora can be used through tools like concordance to search words, phrases, lemmas, and collocates. The objectives of using corpora in ELT are to improve students' vocabulary through exposure to collocations, phrasal verbs, and fixed phrases, and to teach research skills.

1. The use of corpora in
ELT
Amelina Pedrali de Aquino nºUSP: 5683530
Camila Silva Viana nºUSP: 8026473
Karen Ogino Sartório nºUSP: 5380369

2. Introduction
• What is a corpus?
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“A large, principled collection of naturally occurring examples of language stored
electronically” (Bennett, 2010)
•
“principled collection” → the collection of this data is not random
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They can tell us what is present in a language

3. Types
• Generalized corpus
• Specialized corpus
• Learner corpus
• Native speaker corpus
• Synchronic corpus
• Dyachronic corpus
• Parallel corpus
• Comparable corpus
• Language Variation corpus
• Spoken corpus
• Written corpus
• Annotated corpus
• Unannotated corpus

4. How to use corpora?
• Concordance
• Position matters
• vertical axis = “units of meaning in the language system”
• horizontal axis = “a fragment of language use” (Stubbs, 2004)
• Search:
• words
• phrases
• lemmas
• wirldcards
• collocates
• Make the proper question.

5. Objectives in the use of corpora in ELT
•Present collocations, phrasal verbs and fixed
phrases in order to improve students’
vocabulary.
•To teach students how to do research and
build a material of reference for their own
academic life and their writings.

6. Conclusion
• Corpora, in ELT, can be used as a way to improve many skills, such as:
research, awareness of different language registers, writing and reading
diversity. It’s also a good tool to enhance the knowledge of phrasal verbs,
collocations, fixed phrases and vocabulary in general. It also provides an
autonomous toll of help in writing and reading for students: they are able to
diverse and improve their work by themselves, as well as, their understanding
of different texts and dynamics of language.

7. Bibliographical references
• Bennet, 2010 --> Gena BENNETT, "An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics".
In: Using Corpora in the Language Learning Classroom: Corpus Linguistics
for Teaches. Michigan, ELT, 2010 (p. 2-22)
• Stubbs, 2004 --> Michael STUBBS, "Language Corpora". In: A. DAVIES and
C. ELDER (ed.). Handbook of Applied Linguistics. Oxford, Blackwell, 2004
(p. 106-132)