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The purpose of this study is to examine learning transfer in corpus-aided instruction. Fifty second language college students in writing classes participated in this study. Corpus research and qualitative research were employed to navigate the students’ learning transfer. Findings show that corpus-aided instruction has some potential to increase multilingual learners’ writing skills. This study will be of interest and value to scholars and teachers working in areas such as corpus linguistics, English for Academic Purposes (EAP), and second language writing, providing pedagogical implications for language educators and teachers. This study would also help ESL/EFL educators and teachers improve awareness of lexicogrammar along with the knowledge and information of corpus linguistics. It is hoped that language teachers and educators can build corpus literacy (i.e., the ability to use the technology of corpus linguistics for language development) to support their multilingual learners to develop 21st-century skills. Based on the preliminary findings, suggestions and implications are discussed.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2023.47.3.69-80
Date of publication: 2023-11-08 11:50:19
Date of submission: 2022-11-28 04:35:59
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