CORPUS LINGUISTIC APPROACH IN THE METHODICAL PREPARATION OF LEXICAL MATERIALS FOR B2 STUDENTS
Keywords:
corpus linguistics, approaches, textbooks, methodology, pedagogy, bilingual speech, B2 levelAbstract
Corpus linguistics is a methodological approach that takes an empirical stance to the study of language. It relies on the analysis, whether qualitative or quantitative, of a body of written texts or transcriptions of spontaneous or semi-spontaneous speech. Corpus linguistic methods have a potentially strong impact on theory as they can offer support or challenge theoretical assumptions. They can also help improve our understanding of previously described linguistic phenomena and can reveal new topics of investigation that had hitherto gone unnoticed. Moreover, corpus linguistics is closely related to various fields of applied linguistics, for example through the elaboration of pedagogical tools. More specifically, in contact linguistics, a corpus-driven approach based on ecologically valid data allows for the examination of the constraints and social significance of bilingual speech. In addition, in experimental approaches to bilingualism, natural corpus data are used as basic frequency data in combination with the controlled data which are produced in a laboratory environment. This article sheds light into corpus linguistic approaches to the preparing methodological materials for B2 learners.
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