DOI: https://doi.org/10.61957/joerai-20230307

Title: Application of Corpus in College English Teaching Reform

Author: Jiamin Kang

Abstract

The information means have achieved all-round improvements, and the integrated teaching mode both online and offline has been widely applied in teaching practice, which also contributes to the teaching optimization to a large extent. The paper starts from the advantages of the corpus and explores the path of applying the corpus to optimize college English teaching. Focusing on the non-English major students in one college in the northwest of China, the paper collects and conducts a contrastive analysis of their textual materials before and after the corpus application, and after statistical analysis through SegmentAnt and AntConc, combs the differences of the using frequency and preferences of commonly-used types of construction in English writing, to explore whether it has the positive impact to use corpus in college English teaching. Based on a series of foregoing research findings, the paper holds that the application of the corpus to college English teaching can achieve the effect of stimulating interest, which will bring students a good learning experience, promote their acquisition of English knowledge, and ensure their comprehensive development. Meanwhile, it can serve as a provision of new implications for further research and practice of college English teaching.
　

Keywords: College English; Teaching reform; Corpus; Application