This chapter discusses the affordances of direct, hands-on corpus use by pre-tertiary (language) learners for the purposes of “data-driven learning” (DDL), while also outlining the challenges involved in the successful implementation of DDL with younger learners (YLs). However, there are still a number of barriers to the implementation/integration of DDL in the primary and secondary classroom, mainly involving the lack of “pedagogic processing” of existing (mainly adult-focused) materials, a lack of software for specific use with YLs, and a lack of corpus literacy reported for pre-/in-service teacher trainees of YLs that often leads to a reluctance to adopt DDL pedagogy. Advances in the availability, functionality and user-friendliness of language corpora have resulted in a concomitant rise in the number of DDL studies focusing on YLs in recent years, with generally positive qualitative and even quantitative results now finally reported in the literature.
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