Corpus-based approach to teaching English tenses in Slovenian tertiary education Online publication date: Mon, 18-May-2009
by Igor Riznar
International Journal of Management in Education (IJMIE), Vol. 3, No. 2, 2009
Abstract: The article deals with a corpus-based approach to teaching the English tense system in a Slovenian tertiary institution. In addition to offering online support (Moodle) in Business English courses taught at the Faculty of Management, University of Primorska, Business English teachers rely on corpus-based approach in their efforts to provide learning support to students trying to master the English tense system. Corpus-based approach in teaching represents a shift towards a learner-centred paradigm of discovery learning which enables students to test their own hypotheses and discover their own rules in the process of the so-called data-driven learning. In addition, corpus examples also expose students to sentences and structures that they will encounter when using the language in real-life business situations. Hard and fast rules regarding English tenses should be substituted by corpus-based data-driven hypothesis testing learner-centred notions.
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