Creating a special corpus for language learning and a short study of its thematic vocabulary

Abstract

The paper introduces a specialized corpus relevant to language teachers and learners. The corpus consists of
writings from participants of the online teacher training course titled Naturally! Model-based Language Teaching
at Beginner Level. Over two years, 78 participants developed and submitted their responses to the course's essay questions, resulting in a specialized corpus that explores various issues related to language education. This study focuses on a portion of the corpus that is particularly applicable to language teaching. The article details the process of creating the corpus and demonstrates how to uncover basic vocabulary and multi-word units related to the subject matter. The analysis of the corpus provides insights into the observation and teaching of the lexicon. It
highlights that an effective method of teaching vocabulary involves learners acquiring words and expressions
within real-life language contexts.