Discourse Analyses on a Special Corpus of Education

The corpus-assisted discourse research includes the compilation of specialised corpora and analyses of word and word-cluster frequency lists, comparative keyword lists and, of course, concordances. This article firstly describes the construction and analysis periods of a special learner corpus in the field of education. Then it focuses on the results of the analyses of corpus via concordancing software. The corpus in the current study compiled with the texts written by prospective teachers attending various departments of faculty of Education in Kirikkale Univeristy. The corpus contains 250.065 tokens (running words) of written texts in the field of education and 700 texts. The outcomes of the obtained data are assumed to be useful for not only delving into current state-of-art of the teacher education within the given context but also provide insights to the faculty and related stakeholders of the mentioned teacher education context.