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Using A Corpus-Based Approach To Russian As A Foreign Language Materials Development, Edie Furniss
Using A Corpus-Based Approach To Russian As A Foreign Language Materials Development, Edie Furniss
Russian Language Journal
The increase in availability and sophistication of corpora in recent years has facilitated the application of usage-based approaches to language pedagogy. Although the use of corpus data is certainly not without its difficulties, it offers great pedagogical promise. Corpora, consisting of natural language culled from a multitude of sources and genres, provide valuable information about language in use. While a corpus can provide us with contextualized linguistic data and statistics on the behavior of lexicon (with respect to frequency and collocation), a connection needs to be forged between the data and their practical use. Two main areas ripe for the …