ASp, 51-52 | 2007

The teaching of Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) in the second half of the twentieth centuryhas been greatly influenced both by the communicative approach and by developments inresearch in discourse analysis, particularly with reference to genre. The integration of researchin corpus linguistics in the language-learning environment has been a more recent phenomenon,with publications on the use of concordance data by language teachers and learners multiplyingin the 1990s and the early years of the twenty-first century. This article aims to bring togetherthe view of language learning as discourse analysis on the one hand, and on the other thecontribution which corpus data can make to the development of “discoursal expertise” (Swales1990: 27) by learners. Examples are included from areas such as academic writing, economics andbusiness discourse. The article focuses not only on the potential of corpora but also on theobstacles to their integration in the language-learning environment. Au cours de la deuxième moitié du vingtième siècle, l’enseignement des langues de spécialité aété fortement influencé par l’approche communicative et par la recherche en analyse dudiscours, surtout dans le domaine du genre. L’intégration de la recherche en linguistique deLanguage learning as discourse analysis: Implications for the LSP learning en... ASp, 51-52 | 200715