Task 1 answer

Corpus is a study and analysis of real contemporary language used by native speakers and learners of that language. This study and analisis of language is stored and checked in a database.

A Corpus based textbook is a text in which real and updated language speech is used. This means for example if learners of a certain language read this sort of text, they would just find the kind of language it is utilized nowadays in the country it belongs, and not a fake representation from foreign areas.

I think Corpus Linguistics is not just important, it is essential for language teaching. If educators taught their students by using more material based on Corpus instead of the one created by Chilean education, these students would learn English in a much more efficient way. For example, if a kid listened to a CD in which his or her mediocre teacher recorded himself or herself speaking, this boy or girl would not be able to learn appropriate pronunciation and grammar but just the opposite. Moreover, there are some bad English books for school students in Chile that are not very based on Corpus. These books are just cheap material which focus on old or unrealistic language usage. It is not pretty likely these boys or girls are able to get a good knowledge about real and modern English if they both listen to innappropriate recordings, in which native speakers or people with excellent speech command are not included, and keep on using textbooks with a lack of content based on Corpus for their classes.

I believe I can use Corpus in my class by making my students read texts, written by English speaking authors, and making them listen to recordings in which native speakers talk in the way they do nowadays.

Words:
-Word: "method". This method represents a digestive approach to deriving a set of abstract rules.
-Meaning: A way of doing sth, especially in a systematic way.
-G. info: noun.
-Example: She´s following a new method to teach her class.
-Personal e.g: Grammar Translation method is still being used in many schools in Chile.
-Other: idiom. Method to one´s madness: planning to do sth crazy or weird in a structured manner.

-Word: "analysis". Adherents believe that reliable language analysis best occurs on field-collected samples.
-Meaning: An investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole.
-G. info: noun.
-Example: Cost benefit analysis consists of weak definitions on both sides of the equation.
-Personal e.g: Psychoanalysis started being developed by Sigmund Freud in 1890.
-Other: idiom: In the last analysis: when all things are considered.

-Word: "approach". The Corpus approach runs counter to Noam Chomsky´s view that real language is riddled with performance-related errors.
-Meaning: The act of drawing spatially closer to something.
-G. info: noun/ intransitive verb-regular.
-Collocations: make an approach.
-Example: The hunter´s approach scattered the guese.
-Personal e.g: In his book he makes an approach to his theory.

-Word: "study". Linguistics is the scientific study of natural language.
-Meaning: A detailed critical inspection.
-G. info: noun(pl dies)/ transitive verb-regular.
-Collocations: study on, study in.
-Example: She is in a deep study.
-Personal e.g: I hope my studies help me in the future.

-Word: "lexicography". Theoretical lexicography is the scholarly discipline of analysing and describing the Semantic, Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon of a language.
-Meaning: It is the art of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
-G. info: noun.
-Example: Sometimes lexicography is considered to be a part of lexicology.
-Personal e.g: Lexicography is a complex art related to language speech usage.