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The purposes of the current study were to develop the corpus-based lessons in reading English newspaper course and to determine the effectiveness of the corpus-based vocabulary exercises. The samplings of the study were forty-three-third year students majoring English, the Faculty of Sciences and Liberal Arts, Rajamangala University of Technology Isan. To instruct the selected 50 vocabulary words, the corpus-based vocabulary exercises were constructed on a theoretical framework developing from the Constructivism Theory, Second Language Acquisition Theory, and Vocabulary Learning and Teaching Theories that were used for a period of 10 weeks. The research instruments of the current study were the pre-test, the post-test, and the questionnaire. The quantitative data were analyzed through the paired sample t-test and the qualitative data were analyzed by using the software package. The findings reveal that using corpus-based lessons were effective and could help EFL students to improve their vocabulary knowledge, perceive the words, comprehend the meaning of the words, and also employ the words properly in the news contexts. On the basis of these findings, future recommendations for scholars are discussed.