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Our InterCom theme for February is corpus-driven instruction. This week, Robert Poole of the University of Arizona introduces the use of corpora and includes an activity using the Corpus of Contemporary American English. Next week Nina Vyatkina of the University of Kansas expands on this introduction with a discussion of two different uses of corpora for language teaching and exemplifies in-class corpus use with an inductive activity for German learners. Gena Bennett of Kailua, Hawaii, will tell us more about using corpora in the third week of February, and in our final week InterCom editor Lindsay Marean will write about making her own corpus to learn some new things about a language she studies.