Over the last forty years corpus linguistics has made impressive progress in producing numerous corpora and making user-friendly software accessible to linguists, but there is scant evidence of widespread use of this methodology in language classrooms – even most textbook writers shy away from corpora. The problem is how to reach teachers and students with information about corpora and what they can do. Hence this volume edited by Karin Aijmer will serve as a welcome guide and source of inspiration for language teachers who want a new tool for educational challenges. The contributions from a dozen eminent applied linguists cover a great many topics, including spoken English, which recent research has taught us is a far cry from written language and a major hurdle for foreign students, and learner corpora, which are dedicated pedagogical tools in focussing on transfer effects in learner production.

- Jan Svartvik, Lund University, Sweden,

Aijmer has succeeded in bringing together ten noteworthy contributions that allow the volume (and its readers) to take stock of the the state of the current relationship between corpora and language teaching. [...] this volume presents a collection of cutting edge research which is likely to be highly influential in shaping future directions in the area of corpus linguistics and language teaching.

- Lieven Buysse, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, in International Journal of Corpus Linguistics Vol. 14:4: 549-556 (2009),

This work provides a valuable contribution in filling the still existing gap between the wealth of theoretical knowledge on the one hand and practical applications on the other. The essays in this volume have been written by established scholars with great expertise in this area of research, and who else then Karin Aijmer, with her expertise and broad range of publications in this field of corpus research and language teaching, could have been better placed to bring these together in a volume.

- Gudrun Rawoens, University of Ghent, in ICAME Journal 34: 233-236,