The Implementation and Students Perceptions of Corpora Utilized in Teaching and Learning Agreement and Disagreement Expressions

This study explored using English Corpora as a media in teaching and learning process. This study aims to know how the British National Corpus is used as a media in the teaching and learning process and how students' perceptions of it. This research was conducted at Junior High School in Karawang. The researcher used a case study approach with a questionnaire to collect the data. The data were processed in the descriptive, descriptive, and table. Based on the findings, using English corpora, especially British National Corpus, is worthwhile as a media in teaching and learning agreement by providing students with the actual usage of agreement and disagreement and examples of agreement and disagreement expressions. This study also shows that using British National Corpus can engage students in expanding their examples of agreement and disagreement expressions. The questionnaires also showed that after used the British National Corpus, students were satisfied, BNC increased students’ autonomous learning, and BNC helped them learn agreement and disagreement expressions by increase their comprehension.