Authentic texts as the language of real life
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The following article makes arguments for the use of authentic texts in the language classroom and notes that scholars working in several linguistic areas, including data-driven learn-ing, spoken English, and pedagogical grammar, support the use of authentic materials in language teaching. Language textbook English is often artificially constructed with the goal of introducing various grammatical structures in an orderly fashion, and it sometimes fails to correspond with language as it is used in real life. Recently, a number of linguists favor the study of corpora collected from authentic texts in order to gain new insights into the way the English language works. Authentic texts can give meaningful contexts to lexical items and can present learners with a richer variety of language examples than is possible with traditional language textbooks, and teachers may be able to give a more holistic picture of language to students through the use of authentic materials. Many traditional language textbooks rely on a written version of the English language and place most of their emphasis on the grammar of the single sentence and neglect larger patterns of written discourse and areas of spoken discourse such as the high frequency of vague language, the wide use of idioms, and the prevalence of formulaic expressions. Language learners need the "raw data" available from authentic texts and this article also addresses changes which may be necessitated in the teacher - student relationship, such as a shift in the teaching role from that of a traditional language instructor to a language advisor, if authentic texts are to be taught in the classroom.
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