What does ict stand for? Information, Communication, Technology

2.6. Pedagogic corpus

Pedagogic corpus is a corpus consisting of all texts to which a learner has been exposed (Hunston, S. 2006). A pedagogic corpus collected by a teacher or researcher may consist of all course books, readers, etc. used by a learner and the tapes they have listened to. This includes all instances of a word or phrase that learners encounter in different contexts, to improve their knowledge of language.

2.7. Historical and diachronic corpus

This is a corpus which includes texts belonging to various periods of time, to show the development of language over a specified timeframe. The most famous English historical corpus is the Helsinki Corpus with 1.5-million words .