THE ROLE OF CORPUS LINGUISTICS IN LEARNING VOCABULARY

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This article examines the methods of teaching vocabulary using a corpus- based approach and also provides some data on how to employ a corpus-based approach in a teaching environment. Furthermore, it reveals some information about the reasons for using a corpus to teach vocabulary and its benefits. Keywords: Frequency, corpora, adult fiction, high-frequency words, word families, academic words, written language. A corpus is as a collection of natural language examples consisting of some sentences in a set of written texts or records collected for linguistic study, and the texts are then arranged systematically1. Corpus is declаred “nаturаl” since the texts collected аre those produced аnd used nаturаlly аnd аs is or not mаde up. The texts include textbook journаls, novels, newspаpers, mаgаzines, аnd records of conversаtion broаdcаsts, interview results, аnd mаny more. Corpus linguistics is а complete system contаining methods аnd principles to аpply corpus in linguistic reseаrch аnd teаching 1 Pishghadam, R., & Zabihi, R. (2012). Crossing the threshold of Iranian TEFL. Applied Research on English Language, 1(1), 57-71. https://doi.org/10.22108/are.2012. 15446 218 ISSN (E): 2181-4570 ResearchBib Impact Factor: 6,4 / 2023 SJIF 2024 = 5.073/ VOLUME-2, ISSUE-12 or learning2. Corpus linguistics is also a field focusing on a set of procedures or methods for learning a language 3. Based on these definitions, we may conclude that corpus linguistics is linguistic research that uses examples of daily or natural language stored in a corpus. Corpus linguistics is suitable for application in this research since corpus linguistics has the features needed to achieve the research aim. The linguistic features include frequency in corpus linguistics, referring to the appearance of a word in a corpus or text4. Not only used to count the appearances of a single word, the frequency also allows the counting of grammatical, semantic, or other categorical frequencies. Frequency can also guide the researcher to wider findings. Frequency in corpus linguistics shows how many times a word appears in a corpus. Frequency analysis allows the researcher to recognize words often appearing in certain situations in real life. These frequencies used in any language corpus can be utilized to teach vocabularies for language learners due to the fact that there can be found authentic material, meaning words that are common in those languages. Furthermore, According to Varley technology and computers have become one of the main aspects of human life. No one can deny the fact that technology has a great effect on the way people lead their lives. However, according to Breyer5, teaching is one of the areas where technology has not had a strong impact. Corpus linguistics is one of the technology- based tools that could be very useful in teaching, but it has still not been widely used or tested. Nevertheless, in the last 30 years, the use of corpora in classrooms has started to develop. Another feature of a corpus is that it is a principled collection of texts 2 Callies, M. (2019). Integrating corpus literacy into language teacher education. Learner Corpora and Language Teaching, 92, 245-263. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.92. 12cal 3 Gholaminejad, R., & Sarab, M. R. A. (2020). Academic vocabulary and collocations used in language teaching and applied linguistics textbooks: A corpus-based approach. Terminology, 26(1), 82-107. https://doi.org/10.1075/term.00043.gho 4 Crossley, S. A. (2020). Linguistic features in writing quality and development: An overview. Journal of Writing Research, 11(3), 415-443. https://doi.org/10.17239/ jowr-2020.11.03.01 5 Breyer, Y. (2008). Learning and teaching with corpora: Reflections by student teachers. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 22(2), 153-172. 219 ISSN (E): 2181-4570 ResearchBib Impact Factor: 6,4 / 2023 SJIF 2024 = 5.073/ VOLUME-2, ISSUE-12 available for qualitative and quantitative analysis. This definition is useful because it captures a number of important issues. On the other hand even the corpus based tools has been developed, L2 classes has no opportunity to provide internet access classes. So Students can use teacher corpora, classroom corpora. It is, of course, natural that learners and teachers of any languages may pose questions about the use of corpora in learning languages. The answer is apparent and it is the exploitation of texts to pick up the vocabulary. The collection of text or corpus is called as corpora. A concordance lets readers see texts in context. Some tools can be used to analyze corpora, for example, AntCont, Concordance, ClIC, and CorpKit. Various tools provide the creation of frequency information, such as the language frequency database which lists all words appearing in the corpus and defines how many times each unit happens in that corpus. In order to understand the vocabulary, Corpus-based research is commonly used and can be done quantitatively and qualitatively. Thompson and Se