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Title:Corpus Aided Learning Name:陈宣英 ID:2007212380 2009-6 Ⅰ.Introduction Over the years, educators have proposed a variety of active learning pedagogical approaches that focus on encouraging students to discover for themselves the principles and solutions that will engage them in learning and enhance their educational outcomes. Among these approaches are problem-based, inquiry-based, experiential, and discovery learning, all of which utilize such techniques as group work, hands-on experience, and social interaction to enable students to discover new concepts on their own. In recent years, some researchers have pointed out that these unguided or minimally guided instructional approaches lack adequate empirical evidence to support their efficacy, especially for novice learners (e.g.,Kirschner, Sweller, and Clark2006). Some said the process in learning a foreign language in school must be fundamentally the same as the one in which the learner was engaged at the much earlier period when he learnt his mother tongue. The view by no means always gains ready acceptance. Yet it remains true that in the acquisition of a foreign language, one should recognize the verbal signals which symbolize experience of the real world of beings and process. He also should know find the right signals to express what he intends to convey under different circumstances. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to show how corpus-aided learning can provide a variety of raw material of using language so as to help the acquisition of a language. Ⅱ.What is a corpus? A corpus is a large collection of samples of a language held on a computer. The samples can come from anywhere the language is used in speech and in writing. A corpus can help us to understand more about the language and see how people use it when they speak and when they write 2.1 Definition of corpus A corpus is a collection of texts, especially if complete and self-contained. The plural is usually cor