This article explores the criteria for enhancing professional communicative competence through corpus approaches. It looks at how corpus linguistics is incorporated into professional communication training, emphasizing the advantages of exposure to real language and the efficacy of data-driven learning. The results show that among professionals, linguistic accuracy and contextual usage have significantly improved.

professional context, communicative competence, corpus based approach

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