IMPACTS OF LANGUAGE CORPUS IN VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS

Abstract

The study investigates the beliefs of English language teachers on applying Language Corpus in vocabulary development of English Language learners Drawing on a substantial database of concordance in use of language corpus, students’ assessments and analysis of corpus based worksheets have been practiced through software concordance. The first part of paper is a brief review of literature that presents some theoretical information on vocabulary development of ELLs and how effective using corpora in language classes as a means of in offering real authentic examples of language stressing lexical markers. The second part of this paper aims to suggest Data Driven Learning (DDL) in order to analyze learners’ vocabulary learning process in authentic contexts whereas the last section of this research paper indicates how using language corpus affects the vocabulary development of L2 learners.