Computer Aided Design of Chinese College English Teaching Materials Based on COCA Corpus

Abstract:

As the flourishing of computer technology and the appearing of lots of large-scale and well-designed corpora and concordance software, corpus-based approach, an advanced teaching resources, has been widely employed in language researches of various fields and perspectives. English teaching material, the main source of language input, has the quality and authority in Chinese English language teaching classes. The present study attempts to bring about some innovations in construction and designing of teaching material on the basis of the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). Moreover, the research is intended to effectively improve teacher’s input and introducing data-driven learning (DDL), and to effectively stimulate the motivations of students by using this computer-aided and COCA-based designing.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 590)
• Pages: 916-919
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.590.916
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Yan Juan Huo*
• Keywords: COCA, Corpus, DDL, KWIC

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