Background

In recent decades, how to help students learn and use real language patterns has posed a big challenge for English teachers. Traditional tools (e.g., textbooks, dictionaries, other published materials, etc.) and teachers’ intuition, are unable to fully address this issue. This is an area where corpus linguistics can fill the gap. Using corpus data allows teachers and students to study naturally occurring English language for grammatical patterns, word usage and textual discourse. In addition, corpus-based teaching allows teachers to teach students hands-on searching skills to inductively learn English. We believe that transferring such skills to explore authentic language data will certainly facilitate language learners to solve unanswered queries, as well as to become more independent in language learning.

Details of the workshop series

The series consisted of four workshops in 2019, and was co-organised by principal investigator Dr. Ma Qing, Angel, Dr. Wang Lixun, Dr. Lee Fung King, Jackie and Dr. Chen Hsueh Chu, Rebecca, who are all elites specialising in linguistics, language teaching and language pedagogy at EdUHK.

Below is the schedule of the workshop series in 2019: