코퍼스기반 CALL 연구 동향

The trend of corpus-based CALL research: A qualitative meta-analysis of seventy-one selected studies

This paper presents a qualitative meta-analysis of 71 corpus-based CALL studies for the last 15 years (1993-2008). In this study, “corpus-based CALL” research is defined as all the corpus studies that provide information and implications for L2 education. For extensive review of the previous studies, this study employs an analytical framework of corpus-CALL research scope including four categories: 1) tools and types, 2) instructional approaches, 3) language recognition focus and 4) effectiveness. The purpose of this meta-analysis is to provide practical information such as “what, how or to whom” to language teachers who want to utilize corpus for their instruction and also to suggest some insightful direction for researchers in this area. The three research questions are addressed to achieve this purpose. First, what corpus types and concordance tools have been used in corpus-based CALL? Second, what instructional approaches have been employed in corpus-based CALL? Third, what pedagogical implications of using corpus have been driven for L2 education? The findings of this study suggest that corpus-based CALL instruction seems most effective for adult learners in an inductive way of using small corpus data such as writing consultation or self-error correction.