ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses various ways in which linguistic corpora can be employed within Arabic foreign language teaching and learning to assist students in achieving their goals and to help teachers provide effective instruction. It reviews a number of Arabic corpora which have been created and discuss straightforward applications, such as how corpora serve as rich sources for students to take as models in using the language, and for instructors to identify authentic sample language tokens to use in curriculum and materials creation. The chapter considers the potential usefulness of corpora in efforts to address Arabic's sociolinguistic realities for students. It reflects on how these corpora help students within the foreign language classrooms to engage with Arabic as a living modern language which possesses a long and elegant literary tradition, as well as a dynamic contemporary written form and diverse regional spoken dialects.
