In Corpora in the English Classroom, Johan Strobbe looks at how corpus data can bring (back) the linguistic reality into the classroom. Corpora can make sure that what we teach is reflective of ‘real language in use’. In addition they can promote learner autonomy and data driven learning.
In this webinar he explains what a corpus is and how corpora can help us to determine the frequency of words (and thus the difficulty of a text). He will tell you which corpora you can use, briefly explain the syntax and show how you can use corpus data, concordances and collocations in the classroom.
In Five Golden Rules, Hugh looks at the The Lexical Approach, which has been with us for over twenty years now, but the ideas that inform it have been slow to trickle down into our classrooms.
