Volume 29 Number 1, 2025 Corpus literacy development: Three teachers' stories

Corpus literacy development: Three teachers' stories

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Volume 29 Number 1, 2025
contributor.author:
Bennett, Cathryn
contributor.editor:
Mimi Li
date.accessioned:
2025-06-13T22:51:21Z
date.available:
2025-06-13T22:51:21Z
date.copyright:
2025
date.issued:
2025-06-16
description.abstract:
Corpus and applied linguists have reported on the benefits that teachers gain from teaching with language corpora as early as the 1990s; however, recent studies confirm that few teachers use corpora in their classrooms. In attempts to change this reality, some researchers have called for corpus literacy training programmes to guide teachers in using corpora/corpus tools to design their typical classroom tasks. A training programme was built around this idea. This paper outlines three teachers’ corpus literacy development during the training programme: a teacher with previous experience teaching with corpora, a teacher with knowledge of but no experience teaching with corpora, and a teacher who reported no knowledge or prior experience teaching with corpora. To provide an in-depth perspective, a qualitative thematic analysis was completed with themes emerging from the dataset. Findings show that teachers viewed the training positively, that they incorporated corpus-based materials in their classes, and that they were using corpora in their teaching three months following the programme. Further research is called for which highlights teachers’ voices in their corpus literacy development.
endingpage:
14
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Article
format.extent:
14
identifier.citation:
Bennett, C. (2025). Corpus literacy development: Three teachers' stories. Language Learning & Technology, 29(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.64152/10125/73632
identifier.doi:
https://doi.org/10.64152/10125/73632
identifier.issn:
1094-3501
identifier.uri:
https://hdl.handle.net/10125/73632
language:
eng
llt.topic:
Language Teacher Education and Technology Forum
number:
1
publicationname:
Language Learning & Technology
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
site_url:
/item/10125-73632/
startingpage:
1
subject:
In-service Teacher Training, Corpus Literacy Development, Materials Design, ESL/EFL Teachers
title:
Corpus literacy development: Three teachers' stories
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Column Text
volume:
29