How to create corpus-informed materials for the EFL classroom: Introducing a free e-book

We present a new Open Educational Resource (OER) published as a free e-book on . This video was created on 25 June 2021 and was first published for the CL2021 conference hosted in Limerick. This OER aims to empower English teachers from across the globe to design their own, authentic, corpus-based lessons by showcasing a range of ideas for creating corpus-informed teaching materials using online resources. Pre-service trainee teachers from Osnabrück University (Germany) contributed the chapters as part of three English Education Masters of Education seminars taught by Elen Le Foll. The introductory chapter “About the project” outlines the rationale and development of the project and discusses how various challenges were overcome. The remaining Lesson Ideas chapters were contributed by students as part of their seminar coursework. These are organised according to the school type for which they were developed: - Part I is dedicated to corpus-informed lesson ideas for primary and lower secondary schools. - Part II showcases corpus-informed lesson ideas for upper secondary schools. - Part III explores the use of corpora in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and bilingual secondary education. - Part IV presents corpus-informed lesson ideas for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and vocational education. A curated list of links to additional resources may be found in the Appendix. The chapters include detailed step-by-step instructions to work with (formally BYU), Sketch Engine and SKELL. Many of them also include sample worksheets that can downloaded as separate PDFs for immediate use in the classroom. How to cite the OER: Le Foll, Elen (Ed.). (2021). Creating Corpus-Informed Materials for the English as a Foreign Language Classroom. A step-by-step guide for (trainee) teachers using online resources (Third Edition). Open Educational Resource. . CC-BY-NC 4.0. DOI: