TEACHING VOCABULARY THROUGH CORPUS TO THE STUDENTS OF GRADUATION

This study focuses on teaching vocabulary through corpus. Vocabulary is backbone of language learning process and its teaching has primary importance in teaching a language. The use of corpus is the most modern and the latest method which can be used to teach vocabulary at graduate level. With the sudden rise of the use of data through mobiles/computers, this method has got unchallenging repute. The researcher used the corpus of English text books of Graduation level of the Punjab University to teach vocabulary items. AntConc 3.5.7 was used as the tool. The students of graduate level were selected from Govt. Degree College, Kamoke, Gujranwala and divided into control and experimental groups. The use of pre-test taken by the control group, helped the researcher to find out the existing knowledge of the students. Only the top 20 vocabulary items were selected. Their selection was based on their frequency. Multiple techniques were used to teach and enhance vocabulary. The experimental group was targeted by the researcher four weeks with the help of four lesson plans on different type of vocabulary items. The post-test exhibited their improvement. The data was analyzed numerically and presented through percentage paragraph, tables and charts. The analysis of data proved that corpus based vocabulary teaching is far better than the earlier methods applied for the purpose of vocabulary teaching.