Exploring language behaviour in ESP courses

The study aims at illustrating the projects carried out in non linguistic Faculties and within the framework of ESP courses. The projects were meant to check the usefulness of corpus linguistics methodology in teaching English tpo students at non-linguistic Faculties, to promote students'involvement and active participation in the learning process, and to increase language awareness though corpus analysis of specialized texts.The corpus-based teaching activitities have been carried out as practical sessions in courses which were run on a combination of discourse analysis and corpus linguistics.