NARROWING LEARNERS’ LEXICAL COMPETENCEPERFORMANCE GAP: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE USE OF CORPORA IN THE EFL AND ESP CLASSROOMS

Abstract

This paper presents two different experimental applications of corpora through a common corpus-based approach, based on the authors’ experiences respectively in EFL secondary and ESP tertiary settings. The corpus-based approach was not meant to replace other teaching methodologies, but to experiment opportunities of narrowing learners’ lexical competenceperformance gap through their active involvement in corpora-designed activities.

Keywords

• EFL/ESP teaching and learning
• lexical competence and performance
• corpora
• corpus-based pedagogy.