Corpus di testi e concordanze: un nuovo strumento nella didattica delle lingue straniere

Corpus and concordance analysis is rapidly spreading in language pedagogy. As well as materials based on concordance analysis, concordancers for classroom use have been produced, and a number of experiments have shown that they can be exploited directly by students for their own linguistic research. In this paper, I discuss the approaches adopted in introducing corpus and concordance analysis to the langauge classroom. I argue that the concordancer complements traditional resources, such as grammars and dictionaries, insofar as it highlights the conventional associations among words and between words and the context they occur in.