코퍼스와 영어교육

Abstract

Recently, the use of corpus has been very popular in almost all areas of language research, as a means of exploring the actual patterns of language use. The main goal of this paper is to show the possibilities of and advocate exploiting corpus for English language education. For this goal, it first provides a basic understanding of corpus by describing the types of corpus, issues in corpus design, and the use of a concordancing program in analyzing corpus. This is followed by the discussion of three different ways in which corpus can contribute to English language education. First, the content of English teaching can be improved by the more accurate and detailed description of the target language that is provided by corpus-based research. Secondly, corpus analysis itself can be adopted as a language teaching methodology, in which learners discover various facts about English by themselves. Finally, analysis of learner corpus can help us diagnose and solve the problems that the learners typically have.