Schlüter, JuliaJuliaSchlüter0000-0003-3995-15862024-12-132024-12-13202497890272159499789027246486https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/105423The present study aims to show that – given the status of English as a pluricentric global language and as a lingua franca – Corpus Linguistics has important and unique contributions to make to English Language Teaching (ELT). Desirable innovations arguably involve popularizing the use of corpus concordancing as a tool to put native speaker intuitions on a firmer empirical footing, and imbuing ELT practitioners with an awareness that variation –in particular (but not only) between geographical varieties – is an inherent and legitimate characteristic of language in use. To support these points, a quasi-experimental questionnaire study with 76 native English speaking teachers based at German universities is reported, which demonstrates the promises but also the obstacles of such an approach.engEnglish as an International Language (EIL)English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)World EnglishesEnglish Language Teaching (ELT)Varieties of EnglishData-driven learning (DDL)Corpus-Assisted Language Learning (CALL)Prepositional phrasesApplications of Corpus LinguisticsCorpus literacyError correctionNative English Speaking Teachers (NESTs)Target normConsistencyBias420bookpart10.1075/scl.119.09sch