USING LINGUISTIC CORPORA IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES TEACHING IN NON- PHYLOLOGICAL UNIVERSITIES
Keywords:
Corpus linguistics, corpora, corpus-based technologies, KWIC.Abstract
The article considers usage of corpus linguistics technology from the point of lingo didactics. It focuses on a set of corpora, which might be used in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching: the British National Corpus, the Corpus of Contemporary American English, the Times Magazine Corpus, the Corpus of Historical American English. The paper presents a definition of the instrumental competence as a coherent cluster of knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for the students to use corpus linguistics technology in foreign language learning. Students are supposed to learn how to work with some basic corpus tools: LIST, KWIC, CHART, COMPARE, COLLOCATE. The author shares personal experience of how to use corpus linguistics technology in foreign language teaching, presents a set of corpus-based exercises and describes the procedure of the learners` work with the basic corpus tools.