THE USAGE OF CORPORA TO DEVELOPE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY
Keywords:
corpus, corpora, concordance, vocabulary, British National Corpus (BNC), online corpus, classroom corpusAbstract
This article is devoted to specific features of using English corpora to enrich students’ vocabulary in English lessons. Using various types of corpus tools in English lessons and emphasized to the theoretical and practical foundations of basic language corpus in English teaching. Corpus tools for English language are many and varied. That is why English teachers can use them and consider the corpus-based approach to language teaching as a new method.
The exercises discussed in this article vary in form and content, and their main purpose is to help students learn the real patterns and lexical components of using the language.
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