Designing and building corpora for language learning

This chapter provides a brief overview of corpora and tools that are available for language learning and then provides specific information and guidelines for creating and using corpora for language learning. Key considerations for constructing specialised written and spoken corpora are provided. Useful teacher and learner tools for corpus analysis are presented along with example activities.

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2026-05-18
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003412212-34
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Second Language Acquisition and Learning
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Designing and building corpora for language learning

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Designing and building corpora for language learning

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This chapter provides a brief overview of corpora and tools that are available for language learning and then provides specific information and guidelines for creating and using corpora for language learning. Key considerations for constructing specialised written and spoken corpora are provided. Useful teacher and learner tools for corpus analysis are presented along with example activities.

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