UPGRADING EFFICIENCY OF TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE BY INTEGRATING THE USE OF LEARNER CORPORA INTO THE PROCESS OF TEACHING (on the material of REALEC (Russian Error- Annotated Learner English Corpus))

The article deals with potential ways of integrating learner corpora into the process of teaching foreign languages. The author describes functional features distinguishing error-tagged corpora from other ones and analyzes the former as the helping means for both researchers and teachers. Basing on the example of REALEC the ways of integration are shown in case students’ native language is Russian and the one taught to them is English.