The Use of Corpus in English Writing: Scholarly Development and Implications

Abstract

Corpus linguistics, as a methodological paradigm, is one of the striking fields in recent scholarly advancement. Its use in theoretical and practical explorations is generally accepted as a productive and efficient approach to provide affirmative support and empirical data and therefore, is wildly seen in disciplines of languages, linguistics and education. English writing, one of the commonest English language skills and a key area of studies for applied linguistics, has also aroused many interests in its integration with corpus linguistics. The use of corpus in English writing, though having achieved rich products in scholarly studies, still lacks a systematic investigation or a full summary on what have been developed and inspired. To fill in this gap, this study is aimed: by a bibliometric-and-corpus analysis on the titles, abstracts, and keywords, etc. of the scholarly articles of corpus and English writing, to find out their concerns, conclusions and implications.