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Language corpora began to inform the creation of textbooks and reference materials not long after the first electronic corpora became available in the 1960s.  The concept of Data-Driven Learning, the use of corpora in instructed second language acquisition, can be traced to the late 1980s.  Despite fifty years of use and a substantial body of literature showing their efficacy in the classroom, language corpora are far from a common pedagogical tool.  In fact, teachers attempting to move from theory to praxis will find very few pedagogical manuals or user-friendly corpus tutorials, especially for languages other than English.

Incorporating Corpora provides an online manual on the use of corpora to teach German to English-speaking learners.  It includes a brief overview of research in Data-Driven Learning, a guide for using Das Digitale Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache , and a selection of corpus-based assignments piloted in KU German courses.  The manual is be the basis for a series of K-16 teacher workshops during which teachers will explore the use of language corpora in language teaching and will be invited to submit their own activities for inclusion in the project.

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