Using Corpora Technology in English Language Teaching

In recent years, computer assisted language learning (CALL) methods have been taking advantage of different types of corpora and concordancing tools in solving lexical, grammatical, stylistic, semantic, and many other different linguistic problems.This paper isan effort to demonstrate the effect of using concordances in English language classes as a tool for self-learning of certain grammatical patterns, namely, verbs and adjectives with different prepositions. Grammatical and lexical studies are among the two most frequent areas which have made use of linguistic corpora. The results reveal the high effectiveness of corpus consultation as a supplement to conventional language learning tools such as grammar textbooks, dictionaries and the like. The results also made clear that the effect of corpus on students’ self-learning increases as their level of language proficiency enhances. The total improvement of the students on using corpora has been gained as 18.4% which is promising inits own status.