This volume brings together a selection of papers originally presented at the 7th Teaching and
Language Corpora Conference which was held in Paris in 2006. The volume is divided into four
parts and deals with the practice of corpus use learner corpora the creation of resources and
tools and the evaluation of resources. This book follows the TaLC tradition which takes into
account the great vitality and huge increase in computer facilities for using corpora and
creating resources in language teaching. Also the book deals with the teaching of
language-related fields such as translation linguistics terminology or even literature and
cultural studies. Moreover some articles in this volume tackle the more theoretical concepts
of corpus linguistics that can be introduced in language teaching. Other articles deal with the
more and more user-friendly tools that are created to help linguists compile resources
appropriate to language teaching. By showing the diversity of the proposed approaches of
corpus types and corpus analyses that can be used in teaching this volume allows readers to
follow the extremely dynamic evolution of the domain.
