Teaching Corpus Linguistics

The paper presents complex teaching approach used for the course “Corpus Linguistics” which is a part of masters study program in Computational Linguistics currently tough at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridsky”. We propose a useful combination of theoretical issues, exercises and problem-solving tasks, and practical course work as a successful teaching strategy with multilingual application. The course uses extensively e-Learning tools for searching electronic text corpora. It is based on “learning by doing” methodology allowing students to discover linguistic phenomena and interpret them semantically. The final course work improves students’ ability to do independent research work by fostering their curiosity, discovery and developing their ability for reasoning.