“…The number of studies that have applied corpus tools in the EFL Saudi context indirectly as a method of preparing language materials and exploring and investigating specific patterns or values is significant (e.g., Al-Khateeb & Almujaiwel, 2018; Almujaiwel, 2018). Nevertheless, there are few empirical studies that have attempted to apply corpus-based teaching and learning to academic writing skills (e.g., Alharbi, 2012;Alattar, 2014;Alharbi, 2015;Almutairi, 2016;Alshehri, 2018).…”