The use of corpora and corpus-based research to create pedagogical materials is still a relatively new development. This chapter begins by operationalizing the terms we use (e.g., authentic, corpus-based/informed/driven) and then surveys recent empirical studies using corpus-informed materials for English language teaching. In addition to surveying existing corpus-informed pedagogical materials, we present a case study that explores similarities and differences between traditional teaching materials and corpus-informed teaching materials. After a description of each of the textbooks we survey, we then compare how the passive is presented across these two types of materials. This is then expanded to look at exercise types and lexical and use information across these materials.In conclusion, we present areas for future research, such as the need for classroom-based research comparing the use of corpus and non-corpus-based materials, exploring the effectiveness of corpus materials for certain grammatical structures, and exploring the effectiveness of specialized corpora for specific contexts of language use.

Any research question or application relating to language variation and/or use can be approached from a corpus linguistic perspective. The goals of The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics (CHECL) are to survey the breadth of these research questions and applications in relation to the linguistic study of English. The handbook addresses a range of topics, including chapters on lexical variation, grammatical variation, historical change, online language and social media, multimodal corpora, the linguistic description of dialects and registers, and applications to language teaching and translation. In each chapter, authors assess what we have learned from corpus-based investigations to date and provide detailed case studies that illustrate how corpus analyses can be employed for empirical descriptions, documenting surprising patterns of language use that are often unanticipated previously. By bringing together diverse perspectives and cutting-edge research, this volume serves as a comprehensive resource for researchers seeking to understand and apply a corpus-based approach to the study of English.