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Integration of Corpus-based Approach into an EAP Class 

The corpus-based approach to second language acquisition has represented a great step forward in the research of both language teaching and computational linguistics. It has been widely used recently to analyze grammatical errors in students' writing. Although error analysis was employed in the 1970s, it seems that this 
method has not been used in language teaching  for the past  2 decades. The aim of this project is to revive this approach by describing how thirty error types are classified for the development of a grammar checker. A large corpus of over 8,000 sentences has been compiled in different stages. The collected data are provided by students from Taiwan and Hong Kong. This project has been done for four and half years. This paper primarily focuses on common error patterns taken as the analytic basis of an EAP writing course. As a result, 88 % of the students are satisfied with our course design based on the integration of other methods, such as peer review, processed writing, portfolio submitting, simulation company, etc.