How can native speaker corpora be used in the classroom in the skills-based approach to teaching English?
How can native speaker corpora be used in the classroom in the skills-based approach to teaching English?

Summary/Abstract: Corpora are essentially electronically stored fi les of carefully selected samples of either spoken or written language, or a mixture of both. Using them to teach English is like going on a voyage, a voyage of discovery in which students play the role of ‘language researchers’; this can be very motivating for them but timeconsuming for teachers. Corpus data are relatively easy to access: they are literally a click of a mouse away and can frequently be used as raw data (print-outs of lines from a concordance can be brought to class or students can be asked to access a corpus and analyse the data on their own). However, teachers need to make a selection of what they want to present or have analysed, and they must also provide clear instructions or guiding questions for their students.

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