Arabic as a Language of Politics: A Case Study in Corpus-based Teaching

In Arabic studies, corpus linguistics is still a fledgling discipline, but it bound to become an unavoidable tool for specialists who seek ground their research in actual language use. This article presents the preliminary results of on-going on applied linguistics. It offers first approach possibility matching as politics with corpus-based teaching. The paper briefly introduces concept teaching, its advantages and potential limits. then reviews most important corpora currently available politics, by also describing extension, features, limitations. Finally, suggests some classroom activities based arabiCorpus.