From Corpus to Curriculum: A Data-Driven Transformative Framework for Designing Arabic for Tourism Materials

Abstract

This study proposes a data-driven methodological framework for transforming specialized corpus findings into instructional materials for Arabic for tourism purposes. It addresses the gap between authentic Arabic tourism discourse and traditional teaching materials that often rely on linguistic intuition or constructed texts. Adopting a design-oriented analytical approach, the study constructed a representative Arabic tourism corpus and analyzed it using corpus linguistic tools to extract high-frequency lexical items, collocations, multi-word expressions, and recurrent structural frames. The findings were then subjected to a pedagogical filtering mechanism integrating usage frequency, communicative function, and needs analysis. Results indicate that collocations and recurrent structural patterns constitute more pedagogically effective units than isolated vocabulary items, and that raw frequency alone is insufficient for curriculum design. The study introduces a multi-stage Corpus-to-Curriculum model that integrates corpus linguistics with Arabic for Specific Purposes and reconceptualizes the instructional unit based on authentic usage patterns.