PRACTICAL USES OF CORPUS TOOLS IN THE PSYCHOLOGY CLASSROOM

In the present article I would like to introduce both teachers and avid learners of English into the wonderful world of Corpus Linguistics as a useful yet relatively novel tool of linguistic research and a resourceful method in ESAP teaching. Technology is introduced into the classroom by means of corpus tools. The setting is academic. The partakers are a group of psychology students with A2 to B1 knowledge of English in their first course of studies. Above all, the purpose of such undertaking was to introduce Data-Driven Learning into the academic classroom in order to enhance learner autonomy, incite curiosity in learners and to switch from prescriptive views of language to descriptive views, all these becoming possible due to well-balanced learner corpora of millions of authentic English texts across various registers of language.