What I learned:
1. The negative connotation of ensued
2. The websites providing general tutorials on corpora and language teaching
3. Rather than presenting corpora and risk spinning off on a tangent, taking too long etc. presenting ‘a useful website’ with a set of step by step instructions of what to click and what to enter to find out X
What I found interesting
1. I liked the concrete examples the article provided about creating supporting language exercises
2. I appreciated the acknowledgement of practicalities getting in the way of using corpora and the advice regarding how to overcome these.
One thing I am still not sure about
I don’t know how to use COCA – I would like to learn this to then incorporate it into my teaching
