本书“英语教师专业素养丛书”的一本，是英语教师利用语料库进行课堂词汇教学的一站式指南。作为语料库与词汇教学领域的权威学者，考克斯黑德教授在书中先介绍语料库的概念，再阐明语料库与单个单词、多词单位、学术英语和专业英语之间的联系，随后具体说明如何利用语料库进行课堂词汇教学，以及如何基于语料库做研究。为方便英语教学实践，书中介绍了大量案例、任务、在线资源、分析工具以及具体操作步骤；为方便读者，书后附有相关网站、语料库名称和网址、基于语料库开发的测试以及拓展阅读书目。本书极具实操性，可有效指导教学实践。

埃夫丽尔·考克斯黑德，教授在新西兰惠灵顿维多利亚大学语言学与应用语言研究学院任教，为本科生和研究生讲授应用语言学与作为外语的英语课程；其研究领域包括专业英语词汇、学术英语词汇、利用语料库进行词汇学习与教学，以及词汇教学法。

Chapter 1 What are corpora and why might they be useful for language learning classrooms
1.Introduction
2.What is a corpus
3.What kinds of corpora are there
4.What corpora might be available for teachersand researchers to access
5.Why might a corpus be useful for language teaching and what might be some of the challenges
6.Summary
7.What could teachers do after reading this chapter
8.References
Chapter 2 Connecting corpora and single words
1.Introduction
2.Corpora and word frequency in English
3.Measuring the vocabulary load of a spoken text
4.Vocabulary load and written texts
5.Summary
6.What could teachers do after reading this chapter
7.References
Chapter 3 Connecting corpora and multi-word units
1. Introduction
2.What are multi-word units
3.Classifying multi-word units
4.Some examples of multi-word unit lists of general English
5.Regional variations in multi-word units
6.Using corpora to identify multi-word units in a text
7.The Phrasal Expressions List (PHRASE List)(Martinez & Schmitt, 2012)
8.Summary
9.What could teachers do after reading this chapter
10. References
Chapter 4 Connecting corpora and English for Academic Purposes
1. Introduction
2. What is English for Academic Purposes and why is it important
3. English for General Academic Purposes
4. Using corpora to examine vocabulary inthe sciences
5.Corpus-based multi-word unit lists for EAP
6. Idioms in academic texts
7. Summary
8.What could teachers do after reading this chapter
9. References
Chapter 5 Connecting corpora and English for
Specific Purposes
1. Introduction
2.What is special about vocabulary in English for Specific Purposes
3.Frequency in vocabulary in ESP
4.How can corpora help in teaching andlearning technical or specialised vocabulary in ESP
5.Multi-word units in ESP
6.Summary
7.What could teachers do after reading this chapter
8.References
Chapter 6 Taking corpora into classrooms
1.Introduction
2.The four strands (Nation, 2007) and planning using word lists
3.Using corpora in the classroom for strategy training
4.Using corpora in the classroom for testing
5.Using corpora for teaching
6.Summary
7.What could teachers do after reading this chapter
8.References
Chapter 7 Designing and evaluating corpus-based research for the classroom and carrying out your own study
1.Introduction
2.What methodological decisions and principles might need to be made when you consider designing or using a corpus
3.Evaluating a word list made from a corpus
4.Evaluating corpus-based research
5.Carrying out your own corpus-based study
6.Summary
7.What could teachers do after reading this chapter
8.References
Chapter 8 Websites, corpora, tests and suggestions for further reading and conclusion
1.Introduction
2.Suggestions for useful websites and tools for carrying out corpus analysis
3.Some corpora that are available online
4.Some tests developed from corpora for general English
5.Suggestions for further reading
6.Some suggestions for journals on corpus-based research and classroom teaching
7.Conclusion
8.What could teachers do after reading this chapter
9.References
Appendices
Answer keys
Glossary