The main findings from the study can be summarized in three areas: learning effects, learning processes and learners’ attitudes. The instruments for collecting data included the pretest, posttest and delayed test, review tasks, teachers’ field notes, students’ logs, questionnaires and interviews. During the study, the experimental group was trained through paper-based and hands-on activities to deal with the concordance information in the corpus whereas the comparison group was taught vocabulary through reading contexts and vocabulary exercises. Then, target words were selected from high frequency words in the corpus and used to design all lessons, materials, activities, tasks and tests. In the preparatory stage, a purpose-built corpus was compiled from academic texts in engineering fields. The students from both groups were matched in pairs according to their vocabulary proficiency on the pretest.

One group was randomly assigned to be the experimental group studying with the concordance-based method whereas the other represented the comparison group studying with the conventional teaching method. The study was conducted with two intact groups of engineering students in one academic semester.

The objectives of the study were to compare its learning effects with the conventional teaching method’s effects on the measures of definitional knowledge, transferable knowledge and vocabulary retention rates, and to explore students’ learning processes and attitudes in dealing with the concordance-based method. 'The study was aimed at solving the problem of engineering students’ insufficient vocabulary size for academic reading with the application of the concordance-based method.

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