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As educators in the 21st century we are required to use the computers in the classroom. The computer can be a tool for our students as well as us. Teachers can check which vocabulary to teach and how frequent these words are in the language or in a particular text with the help of a corpus. There are a few different definitions of the word "corpus": (Boswood, T. New ways of using computers in language teaching. P 253-254) According to the article there are two main kinds of corpora: You can create a specific corpus by using the eight letters +period +three letter naming system to provide some form of logical suffix in order to identify files. If we, as educators have a corpus, we can use it with our students in many ways such as: This is one example of how a corpus can help us in teaching English: Your students overuse the word "big" in the contexts of words like "city (ies)", difference(s) and problem(s). You want to help them expand their vocabulary and therefore, you create a corpus of "problem" and ask learners to identify words that they could use instead of "big". If we give our students access to this kind of information it makes it possible for them to learn in a more problem-solving, investigating way. Here are some links teachers can use for teaching while using corpus: [|http://www.just-the-word.com][|/] ( [|http://forbetterenglish.com] iteslj.org/Articles/Krieger-**Corpus**.html [|www.longmanhomeusa.com/.../pl_biber_conrad_monograph_lo_3.p]. www.cambridge.org/.../Cambridge-International-**Co**...  - United Kingdom       My personal responce: I think that as a teacher I can use the copus before I introduce texts to my students. The corpus is another way of using the tecnology in our teaching in order to help our students to improve their language and to learn it in an interesting and motivating way.
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What is a corpus? **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">"ASCII text: American Standard for Computer Information Interchange text. ASCII text is the most commonly used format for storing texts in a corpus and making it possible for all concordancing programs to use the corpus. It is something known as DOS text or plain text."
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Concordance: "A list of occurrences of a word (or words) printed with a context. This context can be a single line of characters with the target word printed at the center, a sentence, or another context. One of the most common ways to print out information is the key-word-in-context (KWIC) concordance."
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Concordancer:"A computer program that allows you to create concordances of words held in a corpus."
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Corpus:"A collection of texts (from written or spoken sources) in this case, in a form that can be read by a computer"
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Word list:"A list of all the individual words in your corpus, sorted either by frequency or alphabetically. The words //am, are// and //is// are treated as separate
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">A General corpus **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> – this is a huge collection of divers texts (they are divers in styles and topics) .This kind of corpus is useful for getting information about words that are specifically used in many different ways in the language.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">A Specific corpus **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> – this kind of corpus is more useful for a language teacher. One way of building it is through CD-ROMs containing newspapers and library texts. Using these texts you can build any kind of corpus that you wish, in any topic that you would like. Another kind of corpus is the "learners' corpus" and it’s a collection of written language and is used for interlanguage studies and can help teachers to identify their students language problems and the way the students language is developing.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What can I do with my corpus? **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">To enrich our students vocabulary and raise their awareness of grammar.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">To assist students with their reading tasks and to help them specify a syllabus.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">To teach aspects of written discourse for academic purposes.