Awareness Learners should be encouraged to view a language as a complex living phenomenon and not just as a number of words arranged according to simple rules. Introduce the term ‘language awareness’

Using corpus materials for pedagogical purposes
Aim: to introduce the concept of using corpus materials Objective: to enable students to reflect on their own learning

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A corpus is a collection of texts. We call it a corpus (plural: corpora) when we use it for language research. That makes your class's essays a corpus - a small one. It also makes the internet a corpus - a big one. People writing dictionaries are in the vanguard of corpus linguistics. If you are writing a dictionary, the biggest crime is to miss things: to miss words, to miss phrases or idioms, to miss meanings of words. Lexicographers (the people who write dictionaries) have known for a long time that the best way to avoid missing things is to have a big corpus, and a computer. The computer can then find all the words (ordered by frequency) so a lexicographer can check the list to make sure that words are not missed.
Words in context: Finding out how words are used in a language
It can also show them all the examples of a word in context. This is called a concordance. By running their eye over the concordance, lexicographers can find all the meanings of the word, and phrases it is in. If it is a big corpus, or a common word (or both), there might be thousands of examples of the word. Then, the computer can go one step further, and prepare a 'word sketch', a summary of the contexts, collocations and phraseology for the word. This is how contemporary lexicography works. Lexicographers start from the word sketch, which gives them a good idea of what they must not miss. They then work out what different meanings, grammar and phraseology are shown by the collocations in the word sketch, and write definitions for them. They can also use the corpus as a source for example sentences. When I say 'the computer', of course I mean an app that indexes the corpus and lets users make concordances and word sketches. Google is one app that does something like that (with the Internet as its corpus). However it is not designed for people doing language research. One that is widely used for making dictionaries, with lots of corpora in it, that made the screenshots above, is the Sketch Engine. Dictionary-makers were leaders in corpus use. Following on were people writing language courses. They wanted to make sure that the facts they were teaching about the language were in fact true (!), and to teach common patterns before rare ones, and to use authentic examples of the patterns.