Concordance-based learning and teaching of grammar

Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of interest in the role of grammar in English language teaching. The present state of grammar teaching in China and the negative effects it causes upon EFL teaching have aroused great attention and consideration. In recent years fresh light has been cast on grammar learning and teaching with the appearance of electronic corpora and concordance. This paper gives a general introduction of concordance-based learning and discusses with examples how to apply it to grammar teaching. Accordingly, concordance-based learning may offer more effective and appropriate pedagogical implications.