Abstract
This study reports on quantitative research that investigated the effects of the Corpus-Based Approach (CBA) as a pedagogical approach to Academic Writing Instruction in the context of Saudi Arabia. A total of fifteen female preparatory year students at an intermediate language proficiency level at King Abdulaziz University participated in the study. The study aimed at investigating the effect of applying corpora on learners’ lexico-grammatical abilities following a pretest-posttest design. Classroom intervention has been conducted and data were collected from written tasks over a period of time. The findings of the study demonstrated that the improvement of lexico-grammatical abilities among students is observed.
Highlights
The role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the future of Saudi English Language Teaching (ELT) and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) is stressed (Picard, 2018)
Several implications were induced to improve the quality of language teaching and learning based on the current findings of the study
The study findings have revealed some insights for language teachers regarding the application of the corpus-based approach to writing instruction
Summary
The role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the future of Saudi English Language Teaching (ELT) and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) is stressed (Picard, 2018). ICT which is defined as the use of technology has provided students with access to information and new learning environments through international online providers. Research suggests that CL is making remarkable contributions to the fields of language research, acquisition, and education as it provides an enormous amount of almost every-day authentic language input (Friginal, 2018). The way learners understand, learn, and teach languages has changed (Paker & Ergül-Özcan, 2017). This change is mainly seen when students will be able to both refer to corpus data and to be able to apply what they have acquired outside the classroom
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