[[FrontPage]] **Aims [#dd800ebe] -To gain a basic understanding of the issues in Second Language Acquisition -To relate those issues to corpus-based approaches --To develop unique methods of investigating some of the problems in a corpus-based method --To develop unique methods of investigating some of the problems using corpus resources or techniques in natural language processing --To determine to what extent corpus-based approaches would work to answer the questions and what are the limitations of such approaches **Requirements [#lfaccb62] -Paritipation -Reading -Discussion -Report -The official language: English **Textbooks [#q3e2feb0] -To be announced