Online courses provide a compelling opportunity for domain-specific language earning. They supply a large corpus of interesting linguistic material relevant to a articular area, including supplementary images (slides), audio and video. We contend that this corpus can be automatically analysed, enriched, and transformed into a esource that learners can browse and query in order to extend their ability to nderstand the language used, and help them express themselves more fluently and eloquently in that domain.
To illustrate this idea, an existing online corpus-based language learning tool (FLAX) is applied to a Coursera MOOC entitled Virology 1: How Viruses Work, offered by Columbia University.