On my 9, Language and ICT lecture focused on the topic of concordance program. It was a new experience for us as students when we were first introduced to this topic which is quite new to us. In our second posting of blog, we are given with a task to accomplish. We need to make a summary about "Beyond Concordance Lines : Using Concordance To Investigate Language Development which is in the text book page 70.
From our reading, we conclude that concordance help much in analyzing words. Concordance is very useful in language teaching and learning. However, there are still weakness in this program because it is not that easy to analyze huge amount of data available. This chapter talks about the relevance of corpus data in investigating language development without being to analyze concordance lines.
Based on the research in this article which taken from EMAS Corpus collection in 2002. Concordance and analyzing indicate same form of development of language production vocabulary range and sophistication. We can also analyzed corpus data to inform language educators of language development. All in all, concordance lines are very useful in analyzing words.
From the text, we can analyze the word such as "the,a, language, and and are usually used to described noun and adjective.
a useful resource : noun
a large majority : adjective
the present day : adjective
the use and analysis : verb
the Malaysian learners : noun
language produce : verb
language proficiency : adjective
language educators : noun
and Microconcord : noun
and large unavailable : adjective
and analysis : verb
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Yes, you got the flow of blog writing. It should be a relaxing activity for you but at the same time gives you credit for accomplishing your weekly task and assignment
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