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The aim of this Introduction to the volume Demystifying Corpus Linguistics for English Language Teaching is to introduce the reader to key approaches and key terminology that are employed for the use of corpus linguistics in the classroom. It further gives a brief overview of the contributions to the volume.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    We would like to thank Carolin Loock, TU Dortmund, for her valuable support and her help in formatting the articles of the volume.

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    BNC 1994: http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/, https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/, BNC 2014: http://corpora.lancs.ac.uk/bnc2014/.

  3. 3.

    https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/, accessed 1 April 2022.

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    https://www.english-corpora.org, accessed 1 April 2022.

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Harrington, K., Ronan, P. (2023). Demystifying Corpus Linguistics for English Language Teaching. In: Harrington, K., Ronan, P. (eds) Demystifying Corpus Linguistics for English Language Teaching. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11220-1_1

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