CORPUS LINGUISTICSLorenelly Cervera Orrantia

WHAT IS CORPUS LINGUISTICS? Recently the area of corpus linguistics

has enjoyed much greater popularity, both as a means to explore actual patterns of language instruction.

Although corpus linguistics and the term “corpus” in its present-day sense are pretty much synonymous with computerizes corpora and methods

COSPUS DESING AND COMPILATION

Is a large and principled collection of texts stored in electronic format. Although there is no minimum size for a text collection to be considered a corpus, an early standard size set by the creators of the Brown Corpus was one million words.

WHAT CAN A CORPUS TELL US? There are many levels of information

that can be gathered from a corpus. These levels range from simple word list

to catalogues of complex grammatical structures and interactive analyses that reveal both linguistic and non linguistic association patterns.

HOW CAN CORPORA INFORM LANGUAGE TEACHING The impact of corpus linguistics studies

on classroom language teaching practices is already taking place.