CORPORA USE IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH WRITING

This study mainly focuses on how to use corpora to help students develop their English writing skills. The rapid growth of technology has made it more easily available for teachers and students to have access to online corpora. However, the use of corpora in the English writing classroom is still a practice many teachers are not very familiar with. Hence, the paper makes a summary of the characteristics of the main popular British and America Corpora. Then it demonstrates online corpora are useful resources to aid students in two aspects ---words choice, sentence-level errors correction. The results indicate that Corpus-Assisted instruction is one of the positive and effective ways in teaching English writing, as well as to minimize the teacher’s workload.