This session explores how a corpus-based approach is utilized in extensive academic reading. A corpus tool, combined with text-based academic reading instruction, helps students recognize and articulate research gap statements in scholarly texts. Through structured interventions, four undergraduate English education students conducted corpus analyses to examine discourse markers and collocation patterns in published research articles. Findings suggest that integrating corpus-based learning into academic reading instruction fosters critical reading skills and academic literacy. This session will highlight practical strategies for implementing corpus tools in reading classrooms, empowering students to become active and analytical readers. Participants will gain insights into leveraging corpus-based approaches to help students identify linguistic patterns that contribute to meaning-making in academic discourse.