Computer corpora and authentic texts: Toward more effective language teaching
Bradford P. Wilcox, Timothy G. Morrison, Dallin D. Oaks · Reading Research and Instruction · 1999
Teachers of language have turned to authentic texts to improve the communicative competence of their students. Traditional sources, including curriculum materials, categorical book lists, teachers’ prior knowledge of texts, and lists of graded texts using readability formulas, are incomplete in today's technological world. Computer corpora could provide additional sources of authentic texts. This article examines a variety of teaching implications in using existing corpora and explores the need to develop additional corpora and databases.