Introduction of the Work Group for Corpus Linguistics and Didactics (KorSzak)

Abstract

The Work Group for Corpus Linguistics and Didactics (KorSzak) was created in February 2020 The group aims at building bridges between the domain of corpus linguistics and the methology of teaching Hungarian as a foreign or second language. The four sub-groups have collected and categorised a great amount of material in the past few months. One group has been working on designing and building fully authentic and semi-authentic corpora, another on collecting children’s language, and yet another on compiling a learner corpus of written and spoken lingustic products. The creation of pedagogic materials based on corpus analysis has also begun. KorSzak intends to build large pedagogic corpora that can be used by linguists for research purposes and by practitioners in their daily work. The teaching materials will offer concrete examples of how language teaching can be made more effective with the help of corpora.