Abstract
The advent of corpora has opened new vistas for language study and restructured
linguists’ and academicians’ approaches to lexicography and English language
teaching (ELT). After 1980s, the use of online language corpora and computer tools
garnered tremendous attention of English language teachers and academicians.
Keeping in view the modern trends and needs of learners, this research focused
on the practical implications of online corpora for ELT and its utility in the
Pakistani context. Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) is
used as a reference corpus for this research. MICASE is a collection of nearly 1.8
million words of transcribed speech (almost two hundred hours of recording). The
transcribed data of MICASE includes wide range of speech events like seminars,
lectures, advisory meetings and lab sessions. The study identified the utility of
lexical items at syntactic level and its usage in various contexts. Furthermore, the
layers of meanings and uses of lexicons through in-depth study of right and left
collocates were explored in the reference corpus. The results showed that lexicons
can be used as noun, verb and adjective depending upon the context of the study
and right and left collocates play a significant role in understanding the meanings
of lexical items in various contexts. Thus, this strategy can be fruitful for English
language learners and academic discourse community who are interested in
understanding the versatile uses of lexical items and their contextual meaning
Tehseen Zahra, Akhtar Abbas . (2018) Pedagogical Implications of Corpus-based Approaches to ELT in Pakistan, Journal of Education and Educational Development, volume 5, 5.2.
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