International Journal of Education

Vocabulary teaching has always been a challenge in English education. Current methods of vocabulary instruction remain quite traditional, leading to poor teaching outcomes. With the development of big data and information technology, corpora, with their rich linguistic resources and automatic retrieval functions, offer a new approach to vocabulary teaching. Through corpora, teachers can demonstrate the practical use of vocabulary in different contexts, helping students gain a deeper understanding of word polysemy and collocational patterns, thus improving their language application skills. This paper analyzes practical teaching cases and demonstrates the effectiveness of using the COCA corpus in junior high school English vocabulary teaching. The study shows that corpora not only enhance students understanding of vocabulary but also stimulate their interest in learning and foster independent learning skills. However, teachers need to have certain technical skills and adjust teaching strategies according to student differences.

Corpus; Junior high school; English vocabulary teaching