12. ENG 420C: Seminar in Language (Corpus Linguistics) Overview of applications of corpus linguistics to second language teaching By using a corpus as a tool to find out language, learners are given the chance to empower their inductive skills to learn about language, which is highly instrumental for further learning. Sinclair (2004:288) is definitely optimistic about the unmediated use of reference corpora in the language classroom:
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