This volume is made up of 17 chapters which have developed out of papers and workshop sessions presented at the event entitled "Corpora: Seminar and Workshops", held at the University of Padua, March 29-31, 2007. It maintains the straightforward, practical approach which characterized that event, meant as an introduction to the use of corpora even for novices. At the same time it goes into a wide range of different applications for corpora in language teaching and language research in higher ed ...