THE APPLICATION OF CORPORA IN LANGUAGE TEACHING: WITH A FOCUS ON PHRASEME CONSTRUCTIONS
Keywords:
corpus linguistics, corpus resources, multilingual repository, phraseology, phraseme constructions, phraseodidactics, Macedonian language, teaching activitiesAbstract
Contemporary language teaching is increasingly oriented
toward methodological approaches that enable authentic, context-based,
and research-oriented engagement with linguistic material. In this regard,
corpus linguistics, as a discipline grounded in the analysis of authentic
language data, offers significant opportunities for enhancing the teaching
process. This paper examines the possibilities of applying corpus
resources in language teaching, with particular emphasis on the
acquisition of phraseme constructions as a specific segment of the
phraseological system. Due to their semi-formulaic nature, the
combination of stable and variable elements, and their strong dependence
on context and pragmatic function, phraseme constructions represent a
considerable challenge in language teaching. The paper analyses the
potential of three corpus resources for the Macedonian language:
CLASSLA-web.mk, the Electronic Corpus of Macedonian Literary Texts,
and the multilingual repository PhraConRep. It presents possible models
of corpus-based teaching activities, including analytical, comparative, and
creative tasks aimed at developing linguistic, communicative, and digital
competences. Particular attention is devoted to the advantages and
limitations of the corpus-based approach in the Macedonian context, as
well as to the need for further development of corpus infrastructure.
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