USING LINGUISTIC CORPORA IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES TEACHING IN NON- PHYLOLOGICAL UNIVERSITIES

Abstract

The article considers usage of corpus linguistics technology from the point of lingo didactics. It focuses on a set of corpora, which might be used in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching: the British National Corpus, the Corpus of Contemporary American English, the Times Magazine Corpus, the Corpus of Historical American  English. The  paper presents  a definition  of the  instrumental competence as  a coherent cluster of  knowledge, skills  and abilities necessary for the  students to  use corpus  linguistics technology in foreign language learning. Students are supposed to learn how to work with some basic corpus tools: LIST, KWIC, CHART, COMPARE, COLLOCATE. The author shares personal experience of how to use corpus linguistics technology in foreign language teaching, presents a set of corpus-based exercises and  describes the procedure  of the learners` work with  the basic corpus tools.