Applications of Corpus Linguistics in Teaching Persian to Non-Persian Speakers

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1 . Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Teaching Persian to Non-Persian Speakers, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran

2 M.A. of Teaching Persian to Non-Persian Speakers, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Today, corpus-based language teaching is the focus of many researchers in the field of language education, and language corpuses are used in different ways in this field. In this article, we intend to introduce various types of corpora useful in language teaching and point out their structural features, and discuss the efficiency of corpora and their role in language teaching. Based on this, we have generally introduced two types of corpus, pedagogic corpus, and the other language learner corpus, and we have mentioned examples of these corpuses in the Persian language. In addition, we have listed some tagged linguistic data of the Persian language and showed how they can be used in teaching the Persian language. It is clear that the main question of this research is focused on the effect and applications of corpora in language teaching, and to answer it, we had to refer to the background of theoretical and practical studies in this field with a comprehensive descriptive view. The results of the review and research studies of this study show that each of the mentioned bodies can be useful in language teaching in a special way according to the content infrastructure they have, and the data analysis of this article confirms the positive effect of linguistic data on the production of appropriate educational content.

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Research in Western Iranian Languages and Dialects
Volume 11, Issue 4 - Serial Number 43
January 2024
Pages 113-140

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