Course Description

Course CodeCourse NameCreditsHours
5415301 Corpus Analysis and TESOL 3.0 3
Description This course offers an introduction to corpus linguistics, including the corpus analytical tools, techniques, corpus design and construction, and methodologies for doing corpus-based studies. We will also discuss its applications in English language teaching and learning. Major topics include vocabulary teaching and learning, analysis of chunks, teaching materials analysis, interlanguage analysis, discourse analysis, and computer-assisted language learning. Students are expected to learn to collect corpora data, create a small corpus, run and analyze corpora data according to different research topics.