Corpus linguistics: theory, methodological perspectives and language teaching

Abstract

The word ‛corpus’ is ambiguous, since it involves, on the one hand, a set of data and, on the other hand, a set of methods. In relation to the sense of dataset, all linguists are potential users of corpora, since linguistics is an empirical discipline. The methods of research on corpora, constructed from simple concordances, are especially of a statistical and / or probabilistic nature. The contemporary context of teaching and learning of languages imposes the development and availability of didactic resources, such as databases that support the demanding and rigorous pedagogical practice of the educational context of the 21st century. Simultaneously, this resource also allows the teacher to obtain the necessary skills to foster a critical and reflexive attitude towards the language among the students, bearing in mind the development of their ability to observe and analyze the language in a process of a discovery of its working system.