Giving Students the Tools: Looking at Teaching and Learning using Corpora

This article discusses a pilot project aimed at giving tertiary students wider repertoire of resources to use in language learning, with particular focus on Italian. responds the exponential increase and access online data potential value such represent for studying additional languages level. By examining whether current are aware resources, as linguistic corpora other applications big data, we aim provide an insight into possible uses corpus-assisted learning classroom. In this paper, detail undertaken 2017 undergraduate Italian major metropolitan university. Our directed complete translation task using corpora-based assessed their experience through post-assessment survey. Subsequently, present our initial findings relation possibilities corpus-based approach teaching learning. While today’s already predisposed relying part studies, results suggest not emerging corpora. Moreover, even when these presented students, complex nature software programs used interrogate often underutilisation.