A Survey on Teachers’ Awareness and Attitudes on Computer-corpus Data: An Assisted Technology-based EFL Vocabulary Selection and Instruction Source

The present research paper focuses on the area of vocabulary teaching in the foreign language classroom. It attempts to highlight the way computer corpus data ease the difficulties involved in EFL (English Foreign Language) vocabulary teaching and learning. The paper aims at exploring the extent of awareness of EFL teachers to the concept of computer corpus-data, raising awareness on the efficacy of computer-corpus data in the area of EFL vocabulary selection and instruction and analyzing teachers’ attitudes on the application of those data as a language source in selecting EFL vocabulary teaching materials.