Introducing Online Corpora into ELT Classroom

There has been muh talk about how corPOra can facilitatelanguage learning, especially foreign language learning and howthey can narrow the gap between the English acquired in theclassroom and authentic English. Some even declare thatcorpora will revolutionize language teaching. With theconcordancer and corpora of natural English, "languagelearners can short-cut the process of acquiring competence inthe target language, because the computer is able to helpstudents organize huge amounts of language data so that