ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: This paper examines the literature on the roles of corpus linguistics on 21st century ELT. The analysis focuses on answering the question posed by Römer (2010): “How far have we come, where we are now in terms of direct and indirect pedagogical corpus applications?” It was found that online corpora of English, such as the BNC and the COCA have been utilized beyond the traditional role for ‘vocabulary search’. These corpora have now had additional role as rich resources for computer and web-assisted research of linguistics patterns in ELT. Discrepancies between various linguistic features as covered in ELT textbooks with corpus findings of naturally occurring English was found as the main theme in the pedagogically-oriented indirect corpus approach. Meanwhile, direct application of corpus linguistics on ELT is the Data-Driven Learning (DDL) which advocates inductive and selfregulated learning by examining concordance lines produced by computer software specially designed to assist ELT.
