Concordancing and Corpora for K-12 Teachers: Project MORE

This paper describes the technology-based training initiatives developed for public school teachers in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It focuses on the uses of corpora and concordancing in in-services and coursework designed for ESL, sheltered-content ESL and content-area teachers and describes how these groups of teachers have responded to the initial training. The challenges of introducing K-12 teachers to the applications of corpora and concordancing are highlighted and recommendations for overcoming these obstacles are presented.