Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching

A compilation of research exploring different ways to apply corpus-based and corpus-informed approaches to English language teaching.

Among the reported advantages of this type of examination, perhaps the most
outstanding is the lowering of anxiety as opposed to traditional exams and the '
cleanliness' of the method, environmentally speaking, since no paper whatsoever
was used in the whole process. On the negative side, a few students found that
their limited computer-skills negatively affected their performance. Regarding
activities 2 and 3, i.e. those involving direct access to the database by students, a
good ...