Language learning at your fingertips: Deploying corpora in mobile teaching apps

Abstract

In this chapter we discuss novel ways of teaching English using new technology. The chapter begins with a brief history of language pedagogy and why current practice, especially in the area of grammar teaching, has not always been satisfactory. We then describe the creation of a number of apps for the teaching of the English language, specifically the interactive Grammar of English (iGE), Academic Writing in English (AWE) and English Spelling and Punctuation (ESP). These apps use corpora to source example sentences dynamically and to populate exercises.