The purpose of this webinar is to introduce
language teachers to learner corpora (i.e., large collections of texts containing
language data produced by L2 learners) as a source to create authentic pedagogical
materials. The webinar includes three sections: 1) An introduction to corpus
linguistics: This section discusses the definition and importance of corpora
and corpus linguistics; 2) Pedagogical applications of learner corpora: In this
section, the presenter defines learner corpora and introduces several freely-available
multilingual spoken and written learner corpora; 3) Development of
data-driven activities: This section involves various examples of data-driven
activities and research studies based on learner corpora. The presenter showcases
real-life language learning challenges and explains how the challenges could be
addressed by running basic corpus-linguistic analyses on learner corpora and using
the corpus search results to create authentic materials.
