ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

Corpus Linguistics and English Language Teaching

Corpus Linguistics and English Language Teaching

Introduction

Linguistic studies have addressed the descriptions, and requirements-from different approaches, from those whose interests are focused on the origins and evolution of languages ??to those who, mainly thanks to the advent of increasing storage capacity of computers, intended to account for the actual conduct of languages ??by means of observation and study of large collections of speech / text (quasi) Spontaneous (o). Corpus-based studies are, contrary to prevailing imaginary, far older than it is believed, by the way, is the appearance of recent technological and computational tools responsible for statistical both of these studies, as well as its growing. Without explicitly employ the word Corpus Linguistics, by the end of the nineteenth century, Kading (1897), met a German corpus of over 11 million words in order to determine, among other things, sequences of letters mentioned language. Also, some of the most prominent figures of the period between which structuralism accounts, for example, Boas (1940), also made ??use of corpora in order to observe the behavior of the Amerindian languages (Adcock, Collier, 2001, 529-546). The communicative approach is term language training for a view of learning based on the meaning and context of the statement in a communication situation. This approach runs counter to the earlier views by focusing more on form and structure of language and context. It is important to consider the opposition in the linguistic theories to better understand the concept of traditional approaches

In the thirties held a significant number of jobs where corporations are analyzed in order to establish lexical frequency in use of real speech. This work was characterized as conducted and interpreted by professionals closely connected with the teaching of English. In 1960, Quirk designed and carried out a study called Survey of English Usage, Starvic work was digitized and later supplemented by the famous Brown corpus, giving rise to what Leech (1991) considers as a resource with almost no comparison to those orality interested in studying English. The use of newspapers (you prune a corpus), carefully prepared mind, by those linguists dedicated to language acquisition processes have been, until now, a rich source of linguistic material to study. Longitudinal studies in this line of research, a tradition also quite extensive, have made ??use of important collections of statements contained in newspapers, for example Brown (1973) yBloom (1970). Chomsky, the linguist in his personal merit was a landmark in modern linguistics postulates implicit criticism of corpus linguistics, since for him, the core research of linguist lies in what he calls the competition, i.e., the knowledge possessed the speaker of (rules of) their language, on the other hand, what he called performance corresponds to a poor demonstration of the wealth contained in the competition. The following section presents some preliminary considerations on the use of corpora in linguistic studies, together with the advantages of LC. Later, we intend to address more directly the debate on the (possible) transfer studies of the LC to the teaching ...