Using Guided, Corpus-Aided Discovery to Generate Active Learning

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This article shows how English teachers can provide careful guidance for students to use a corpus to research, discover, and reflect on the grammatical and sociolinguistic aspects of English. The author introduces the idea of using a corpus in teaching English and offers several important online resources for English language corpora. The author provides a rationale for corpus-based teaching and gives two examples of how to guide students in exploring linguistic features of English.

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Li-Shih Huang

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Teachers Grammar Vocabulary Writing Integrated Skills Teacher Training Technology in Teaching
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Cover of English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 4 featuring a skyline

English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 4

Chicago is the focus of the feature article and the basis of a lesson plan that provides practice in writing and reading postcards. This issue also includes articles on enhancing learning with mobile phone technology, VoIM-mediated cooperative tasks, and corpus-aided discovery. Additional articles d