INCORPORATING PARALLEL CORPORA IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES: REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS WORK DONE IN THE FIELD
Keywords:
Parallel corpus, researches aiming at integration of parallel corpora into teaching process, experimental studies teaching to use parallel corpora, parallel corpora in vocabulary acquisition.Abstract
Since the compilation of the first language corpus (1961) till today a relatively linguistic discipline called corpus linguistics has achieved enormous amount of advancements in the field that now plays great role in current linguistic scenario of the world. Creation of parallel corpus is one of the game changing results of the field which has contributed to the development of translational studies significantly since its birth. But the dimension of its opportunities reached the field of teaching foreign languages long ago and number of scholars working in the field made noticeable contributions to the use of parallel corpora in teaching process. However, due to some objective and subjective obstacles those Uzbek scholars faced during the last century the detailed researches in the field started relatively later resulting in the lack of widely usable parallel corpora with all modern tools in it. In today’s article we aim to deliver the overview of the work done in the domain of using parallel corpus to teach a foreign language to enhance different language skills to encourage further interest of any teacher of a foreign language. By this we hope that more people will be encouraged to learn further about the development of the parallel corpora and application of them in a classroom to enhance their students’ proficiency levels.
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