Classroom Concordancing in the 21st Century: The New Generation

Data-driven learning has come of age; yet although most teachers have by now heard of classroom concordancing in its various forms - hand-out, hands-on, or simply handy (as pre-digested data presented in the form of kibbitzers) - the relative paucity of published studies suggests that its actual use remains the preserve of the few. On the other hand, research centered around the analysis of learner corpora is flourishing. While some of the findings from these studies find their way into language reference works, most are slow to filter down into classroom materials. This paper discusses how the findings from an ongoing learner corpus study are being integrated into teaching using corpora in the classroom.