This paper explores the potential of parallel corpora in foreign language learning and teaching. After an overview of the corpus-based pedagogical method of data-driven learning, the main requirements of a corpus to be used in the classroom are outlined. Subsequently, the bilingual parallel corpus Spanish/German, PaGeS, is introduced, the steps in its creation are sketched and the different search possibilities are briefly described. The potential of the PaGeS corpus is illustrated by a practical case study: the German equivalents of the Spanish verb salir.

This chapter presents the bilingual parallel corpus PaGeS, compiled by the research group SpatiAlEs from the University of Santiago de Compostela. PaGeS currently amounts to nearly 20 million tokens and consists of texts originally written in German and in Spanish and their correspondent translations into the other language, as well as a small portion of German and Spanish translations from third languages. The present contribution introduces the main characteristics of the PaGeS corpus, focusing on its design and compilation. It first explains the criteria for the selection of the texts and the details of text pre-processing, automatic alignment and manual review. It then addresses the search and display features describing the server architecture and indexing process. Finally, the intended development of the PaGeS corpus is briefly discussed.

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Zusammenfassung. Das Korpus-PaGeS ist ein zweisprachiges Parallelkorpus, das aus einer Sammlung von spanischen und deutschen Texten der Gegenwartssprache besteht. Der Aufsatz beschreibt die einzelnen Arbeitsphasen in der Erstellung des Korpus. Die Beschreibung umfasst die manuelle Vorverarbeitung, die linguistische Aufbereitung und das automatische und manuelle Verfahren für die Alignierung der Texte. Es wird auf den Zugriff und die Visualisierung der Daten eingegangen und die verschiedenen Suchmöglichkeiten werden erläutert. Abschließend werden die geplanten nächsten Schritte skizziert.

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