The main tasks facing a modern foreign language teacher are to enrich the content of education and improve the educational process and to master new information technologies in a timely manner. The technologies of corpus linguistics considered in this article certainly belong to this technology.The article focuses on the use of corpus linguistics technology in the development of students' vocabulary.Also, the topic of corpus linguistics is touched upon:history of development, types and applications.As a result, it is determined that exercises for the development of students' lexical skills on the basis of the linguistic corpus are effective if the necessary conditions are met.