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This article reviews and discusses four somewhat contentious issues in the application of corpus linguistics to pedagogy, ESP in particular. The authors explore how corpus-based research has been used to inform a variety of concordancing activities designed to help undergraduate science students discuss their theses. The concordancing tasks were integrated into classroom teaching and made use of a freely-available corpus of research articles. Concordancing tasks focused on problematic areas identified in students' ability to discuss their own and related research. The corpus enquiries were designed to familiarize students with more sophisticated searches to exploit the functionality of the software used. Keywords: ESP, Corpora, concordancing task , data-driven learning