ABSTRACT
While most pedagogic applications of corpus findings involve native speaker or 'expert' corpora, several researchers-cum-practitioners, have also pointed out the value of incorporating learner corpora into language learning. One experimental classroom project where IPU learner corpora have been integrated in the instruction cycle is reported in Mukherjee and Rohrbach, who support individualising writing by having students build mini-corpora of their own writing, and localising the database. Flowerdew in 2000 and reiterated by Granger a decade later in 2009. As far as pedagogic applications are concerned, van Rij-Heyligers has proposed building ELF corpora from the Web. Perhaps it is wise at this stage to advise caution, as Granger does, who also relates ELF to learner corpora and expresses doubts as to whether ELF features can be codified. However, some practitioners have exploited parallel corpora for language teaching in monolingual classrooms where learners share similar L1-related difficulties.
