Construction and Analysis of Corpus of College English Teaching and Testing

Abstract

With the increasing awareness of the importance of big data in almost all the fields comes widespread attention to the use of corpus in language learning again. In order for English learners, teachers and researchers to have a paradigm for corpus construction to refer to and understand the important role of Corpus of College English Teaching and Testing in English teaching and testing, this paper makes a detailed introduction to the corpus construction from the perspectives of the necessity for building the corpus, principles for corpus building, corpus composition and technical specifications in corpus construction with the further hope that they can have a good command of the whole process of building a corpus. Meanwhile, a comprehensive analysis of functionalities and significance of its sub-corpus in linguistic studies and practical applications is carried out to prove that this corpus is of high quality and great value to college English teaching and testing. Finally this corpus is also believed to play a significant part in college English teaching reform and research.