The Application of Concordance Software
Last week, our lecture was on the concordance program which is a program that could list specific words in a context. The actual name for the software is a ‘concordancer’ . The main purpose for concordance is to analyze a certain text and it is very suitable for those who want to study texts closely or analyze language in depth. Concordance has its many uses; it can make indexes and word lists, count word frequencies, compare different usages of a word, analyze keywords, find phrases and idioms and on top of all, our findings or analysis could be published to the web.
Besides that, the application of concordance includes; language teaching and learning, data mining and clean-up, literary work and linguistic, for translation, corpus linguistics and content analysis.
Therefore, after a brief introduction on the main topic, I will now write on the tutorial that was held last week, also on concordance. We were divided into groups, 3 or 4 persons per group to analyze the use of certain words that has been concorded in a certain text provided in the presentation. The first one was on the word ‘a’. We analyzed the use of the word whether it was used before a noun, an adjective, an adverb, etc. For example, ‘a minute before’. The word ‘a’ is used before a noun and after completing the analysis, we concluded that nouns is the commonest part of speech used after a determiner such as ‘a’. A determiner used before an adjective also could be found in the text, such as ‘a clever lad’. The word clever modifies or gives more information on the noun ‘lad’, therefore it clearly is an adjective. Besides that, what I just managed to learn even being in the IT for language class is that the phrase ‘a pretty quick pace’ uses the word ‘a’ before an adverb even though ‘pretty’ and ‘quick’ seems like an adjective at first. In the phrase, ‘pretty’ modifies the adjective ‘quick’ which modifies the noun ‘pace’. Then, we went through another text and this time, it was about the word ‘about’. After a thorough analysis, we discovered that the word is used commonly before a determiner such as ‘about the house’ and also before a pronoun and relative pronoun; ‘about my poor mother’, ‘about whom I had’. Nouns are also placed after the preposition ‘about’ such as ‘about 7 miles’. After doing the analysis, we had to present our findings in front of the class. Unfortunately, my name was not called to represent my group’s analysis.
Lastly, we were assigned to write a summary on the topic 'Beyond Concordance Lines: Using Concordances to Investigate Language Development'. The Emas Corpora used to investigate language development is an untagged and unedited learner corpus that contains written data in the form of three essays written by about 800 students. What they had discovered or the results they managed to collect, which indicated that the older age groups, the form4 students tend to use a wider and more sophisticated range of words were made done simply with the aid of the concordance program. In addition, what interests me was the quote in Hunston (2002) notes "The essence of work on learner corpora is comparison". Then the explanation on how the values in the study can be regarded as benchmarks against which to compare future groups of students as well as assess the developement of the language program in Malaysia in general. Its significance is to simply say how concordance could be a great help in the language study not only now but also in the thats ahead of us.
Besides that, the application of concordance includes; language teaching and learning, data mining and clean-up, literary work and linguistic, for translation, corpus linguistics and content analysis.
Therefore, after a brief introduction on the main topic, I will now write on the tutorial that was held last week, also on concordance. We were divided into groups, 3 or 4 persons per group to analyze the use of certain words that has been concorded in a certain text provided in the presentation. The first one was on the word ‘a’. We analyzed the use of the word whether it was used before a noun, an adjective, an adverb, etc. For example, ‘a minute before’. The word ‘a’ is used before a noun and after completing the analysis, we concluded that nouns is the commonest part of speech used after a determiner such as ‘a’. A determiner used before an adjective also could be found in the text, such as ‘a clever lad’. The word clever modifies or gives more information on the noun ‘lad’, therefore it clearly is an adjective. Besides that, what I just managed to learn even being in the IT for language class is that the phrase ‘a pretty quick pace’ uses the word ‘a’ before an adverb even though ‘pretty’ and ‘quick’ seems like an adjective at first. In the phrase, ‘pretty’ modifies the adjective ‘quick’ which modifies the noun ‘pace’. Then, we went through another text and this time, it was about the word ‘about’. After a thorough analysis, we discovered that the word is used commonly before a determiner such as ‘about the house’ and also before a pronoun and relative pronoun; ‘about my poor mother’, ‘about whom I had’. Nouns are also placed after the preposition ‘about’ such as ‘about 7 miles’. After doing the analysis, we had to present our findings in front of the class. Unfortunately, my name was not called to represent my group’s analysis.
Lastly, we were assigned to write a summary on the topic 'Beyond Concordance Lines: Using Concordances to Investigate Language Development'. The Emas Corpora used to investigate language development is an untagged and unedited learner corpus that contains written data in the form of three essays written by about 800 students. What they had discovered or the results they managed to collect, which indicated that the older age groups, the form4 students tend to use a wider and more sophisticated range of words were made done simply with the aid of the concordance program. In addition, what interests me was the quote in Hunston (2002) notes "The essence of work on learner corpora is comparison". Then the explanation on how the values in the study can be regarded as benchmarks against which to compare future groups of students as well as assess the developement of the language program in Malaysia in general. Its significance is to simply say how concordance could be a great help in the language study not only now but also in the thats ahead of us.
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You might want to try animation and other pictures as background to make it more interesting !
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