TEACHING ENGLISH GRAMMAR ON THE BASE OF CORPORA

Language teaching in the last three decades has focused on the process of learning through communication, with little or no attention to the forms of the language. However valuable this approach, there has been growing recognition that knowledge of the language system and accuracy are also relevant. Teachers’ interest in the content of language learning has revived and it is precisely corpora-based research that makes this information available for language teachers and researchers . This article provides some examples of corpora-based works and mentions some advantages of using corpora in the English learning classroom, it reviews several studies that have been carried out on this topic , that explain why using corpora for English Teaching is valuable.