ABSTRACT
A substantial part of the research projects will most likely involve the compilation and use of ad hoc corpora. This chapter discusses some basic principles in corpus design that are relevant to the members of an educational research team wishing to use Corpus Linguistics (CL) methods in their project. It explores two research case studies that examine education policies. The first research project is set in Australia and looks at how the National Quality Framework is represented and constructed in the media. The second project looks at financial literacy education policy in Canada. The researcher in this project uses CL as a complementary method. The chapter offers some basic guidelines to understand how one can go about comparing features across two corpora. It examines the policies on international education published by the governments of the UK and New Zealand.
