La elaboración de un corpus del profesorado de español (COPELE): ¿utopía o realidad?

Abstract

Corpus Linguistics constitutes a branch of linguistics that affects positively the teaching practice of the language teacher. Many corpora, where samples of foreign language students are registered, have been published to carry out pedagogical interventions to improve the learning and teaching process. However, most of these studies are focused on students rather than teachers, who require, on this behalf, information about their peer’s beliefs, perceptions, and attitudes. The present study analyzes the possibilities of elaborating a corpus of Spanish teachers. A questionnaire for teachers with different profiles and settings has been designed and administrated (n=130) to find the role of corpus in their teaching practice, the perception of their profession, as well as the benefits that the existence of this corpus (CopELE) would/could have. Results show unanimity among the participants in relation to the benefits this could have, among others, for the acknowledgement of their teaching practice.