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EFL Teachers’ Corpus Literacy Empowerment: Exploring a Multifaceted Teacher Training Model Aided with Corpus-based Teaching Instructions

corpus linguistics; corpora; corpus literacy; teacher training; English education

Over the past few decades, the popularity of corpus linguistics has drawn due attention at home and abroad. A multitude of research articles, conference papers, and book chapters have made corpora well-known in linguistic research. However, these monumental breakthroughs and endeavors have not yet been sufficiently converted into a language-teacher-training perspective especially in primary and secondary educational context. In line with the previous studies, this paper argues that the empowerment of EFL teachers’ corpus literacy is pivotal throughout their entire professional development phases. This research will also contribute directly towards the establishment of a multifaceted teacher training model for both student teacher trainees and in-service English teaching practitioners aided with step-by-step corpus-based teaching instructions with respect to the teaching of vocabulary, grammar and discourse by means of diversified, powerful, free and user-friendly corpus tools (e.g., AntConc, LancsBox, WordSmith, etc.). Pedagogic implications concerning how EFL teachers' corpus literacy can be developed and major obstacles confronted in the process of its implementations are also discussed in this research article.