Corpus work with ordinary teachers: Data-driven learning activities

Henry Tyne (1)

1 VECT-Mare Nostrum - VECT-Mare Nostrum

This paper presents findings from experimental uses of corpora for language teaching in secondary school education in France. Working alongside two teachers of Spanish, we identified specific learning outcomes in pedagogical sequences and looked at how corpus use could be brought into their schemes of work with a view to facilitating the attainment of these. In each case, the teachers felt that their task had been made easier, insofar as the enquiry methods or techniques allowed them to carry out their work more efficiently. Such approaches to corpus use in language teaching are found to be compatible with the existing practices of ordinary language teachers. However, they do bring into question the idea of corpus work necessarily involving large, end-state electronic corpora.

Mots clés: Data-driven language learning; applied linguistics

Mots clés: Apprentissage sur corpus; corpus; didactique des langues

Domaines: Linguistique

Henry Tyne. Corpus work with ordinary teachers: Data-driven learning activities. Input, Process and Product: Developments in Teaching and Language Corpora, Masaryk University Press, pp.114-129, 2012. ⟨hal-00679691⟩