This course presents a practical introduction to corpus linguistics, an extremely versatile methodology of language analysis for Korean language teachers. Advances in computer technology have revolutionized the ways linguists can approach their data. By accessing large digital bodies of text (corpora) and searching for phenomena of interest, we can uncover complexities in naturally-occurring data and explore broader issues utilizing linguistic patterns and frequency information.

Some of the fundamental questions to explore are; what is a corpus, and what corpora exist? How are corpora constructed and linguistic annotation added? What tools are available for search, annotation, and analysis? In addition to acquiring theoretical knowledge and practical skills necessary to collect and analyze corpora, particularly learner corpora, students will learn how corpora are used for examining diverse aspects of language learning and teaching and develop their own research ideas using corpus-based methodology and resources.