Basic Concepts
What does CBLP stand for?
Corpus-Based Language Pedagogy.
What is vocabulary?
The words of a language
Can a corpus help students learn grammar?
Yes
What is a concordance?
A list of examples showing a word in context.
Name one advantage of CBLP
It helps students learn authentic language.
What is a corpus?
A collection of real spoken or written language.
What is a collocation?
Words that commonly go together
What can students learn from grammar patterns in a corpus?
How grammatical structures are used in real sentences.
What is a concordancer?
A tool that searches a corpus and displays examples of words or phrases.
Can CBLP improve vocabulary learning?
Yes.
What is the main goal of CBLP?
To help students learn language through real examples.
Give an example of a collocation
Make a mistake
What is a grammar pattern?
A common way words or grammatical structures are used.
What can students find using a concordancer?
Words, phrases, and language patterns.
True or False: A corpus contains only written language.
False. It can contain spoken and written language.
What types of language can a corpus contain?
Spoken and written language.
What does the word authentic mean in language learning?
Real language used naturally by people.
How can students use corpus examples to understand the present perfect?
They can examine real sentences containing the present perfect
Name one online corpus tool.
Sketch Engine.
What is the teacher's role in CBLP?
To guide students in understanding and analyzing corpus data.
Why is a corpus useful for language learning?
It shows how people use language in real life.
How can a corpus help students learn new vocabulary?
It shows words in different contexts and examples.
Why are real examples useful for learning grammar?
They show how grammar works in different contexts.
How can a concordancer help students understand the meaning of a word?
It shows how the word is used in different sentences.
True or False: Students can use a corpus to learn collocations
True.