THE USE OF CORPUS LINGUISTICS IN PREPARING ENGLISH TEACHING MATERIALS FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES IN THE FIELD OF METEOROLOGY

Abstract

English for Specific Purpose is an English learning approach that focuses specifically on the use of English in certain scientific and professional fields. This research discusses preparing English teaching materials using the features in AntConc software which is one of the linguistic corpus software. The aim research is to know how to use of Corpus Linguistics in Preparing English Teaching Materials for Specific Purposes in the Field of Meteorology. The method used in this study is a combined method by applying quantitative methods to obtain research data and qualitative methods in the analysis process to obtain conclusions. The results showed that there were different words used 1269 in the total of words including repeated 5359 words. These words are classified into classes of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, abbreviations, etc.