Introduction. At present, research-based learning is one of the most popular contemporary training methods for secondary vocational education teachers. The paper shows the possibility of using one of these technologies, namely corpus-based learning, for the formation of professionally significant competencies.
Aim. To describe the technology of using corpus data to train documentary linguistics students.
Methods. The analysis of regulatory and legal documentation, as well as educational and methodological literature was carried out. The tools of corpus linguistics were used as teaching tools, namely: distributive analysis for characterizing the combinability of words, quantitative analysis for determining the frequency of words and phrases in general and in a particular type of texts. In addition, a content analysis of students’ research works was carried out.
Results. The article provides evidence of the effectiveness of corpus-based learning for the formation of students’ research and language competencies. This technology also allows one to expand the repertoire of students’ skills and knowledge, and stimulate intra-activity motivation of learning.
Scientific novelty. The article is the first one to describe the technology of applying methods of corpus linguistics to teaching documentary linguistics, and even to form communicative competence among documentary linguistics students — future teachers of the secondary vocational education system.
Practical significance. The results of the study can be used to train vocational education teachers and to teach documentary linguistics.