Candarli, Duygu (2025) Corpus linguistics and classroom discourse. In, Reference Module in Social Sciences. Elsevier Ltd.. (doi:10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00477-4).
Abstract
This article focuses on the synergy of corpus linguistics and classroom discourse. Although classroom discourse has been extensively researched, using a case study approach and conversational analysis, most of the classroom discourse studies using corpus linguistics techniques have concentrated in higher education settings in English-speaking countries, especially the UK and US, to date. The corpora of classroom discourse mainly consisted of written texts, such as textbooks used in classrooms, and spoken texts that mostly involved teacher talk, neglecting the multimodal nature of classroom discourse, such as visual, gestural and spatial modes of communication. Such biases are reflected in the review of studies in this article. This article ends with an outline of the challenges of conducting classroom discourse research utilizing corpus linguistics techniques and offers future directions. The article argues for the need to broaden the conceptualization of classroom discourse to other informal settings, expand empirical studies in pre-tertiary settings (any stages of learning before university education) in a range of countries and calls for the synergy of different disciplines and methods, including multimodality and artificial intelligence, in corpus-based classroom discourse research.
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