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What is concordance?
What is concordance?
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posted Wednesday, 14 March 2007
In my opinion, concordance is a program that helps people to get extra information about the grammar usage in various aspects. If I want to analyze a word deeply, concordancer as a tool of the program can list the word in context. Based on my knowledge, concordance can analyze keywords, find phrases and idioms publish to the web and so on. In the tutorial class, my lecturer has been guided us to visit the URL that connected to the concordance software such as http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/wics/wics.htm.
In addition, my friends and I need to analyze the occurrences and the position of a and about in the keywords in context (KWIC). From my knowledge I know that a is called the indefinite article. A is also comes before a singular countable noun. After 30 minutes discussion, I know that article ‘a’ always occur before a noun, adjectives, adverbs and verb. For example, ‘a cry’ is a noun phrase because the head is a noun in this context. In contrast, cry is known as a verb because it can modify an action but after I add an article ‘a’ in front of the word ‘cry’ it’s automatically change the function as a noun. Furthermore, about are both prepositions and adverbs. The meaning is sometimes the same and sometimes different. About (preposition) means ‘on the topic or subject of’. About is also use to talk about place. Besides that, about means ‘approximately’ or ‘not exactly’ when we are talking about the numbers. For example, ‘running about in wild alarm’ is an adverb phrase. The word ‘about’ which occur after running act as an adverb that modify the word ‘moving’.
This concordance software helps the tedious task of analyzing English Language data and greatly extends the potential of a corpus in language Pedagogy. Corpora often help on how words and grammatical construction are used. Teachers, researchers and even language learners typically examine concordance lines to discover how words and grammatical are used. Otherwise, the concordance program help students to look at the systematically of language as an interesting linguistic puzzle. Although concordance software can be used to help analyze the language data available, many may still be easily disturbed by the huge amount of data available. Based on the analysis, results show some development in terms of language production as well as vocabulary range. It is possible to introduce a longitudinal element in future analysis that can be taken from the EMAS corpus collected in 2002. These studies can be regarded as benchmarks against which assess the development of the language program in Malaysia.
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posted Wednesday, 14 March 2007
In my opinion, concordance is a program that helps people to get extra information about the grammar usage in various aspects. If I want to analyze a word deeply, concordancer as a tool of the program can list the word in context. Based on my knowledge, concordance can analyze keywords, find phrases and idioms publish to the web and so on. In the tutorial class, my lecturer has been guided us to visit the URL that connected to the concordance software such as http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/wics/wics.htm.
In addition, my friends and I need to analyze the occurrences and the position of a and about in the keywords in context (KWIC). From my knowledge I know that a is called the indefinite article. A is also comes before a singular countable noun. After 30 minutes discussion, I know that article ‘a’ always occur before a noun, adjectives, adverbs and verb. For example, ‘a cry’ is a noun phrase because the head is a noun in this context. In contrast, cry is known as a verb because it can modify an action but after I add an article ‘a’ in front of the word ‘cry’ it’s automatically change the function as a noun. Furthermore, about are both prepositions and adverbs. The meaning is sometimes the same and sometimes different. About (preposition) means ‘on the topic or subject of’. About is also use to talk about place. Besides that, about means ‘approximately’ or ‘not exactly’ when we are talking about the numbers. For example, ‘running about in wild alarm’ is an adverb phrase. The word ‘about’ which occur after running act as an adverb that modify the word ‘moving’.
This concordance software helps the tedious task of analyzing English Language data and greatly extends the potential of a corpus in language Pedagogy. Corpora often help on how words and grammatical construction are used. Teachers, researchers and even language learners typically examine concordance lines to discover how words and grammatical are used. Otherwise, the concordance program help students to look at the systematically of language as an interesting linguistic puzzle. Although concordance software can be used to help analyze the language data available, many may still be easily disturbed by the huge amount of data available. Based on the analysis, results show some development in terms of language production as well as vocabulary range. It is possible to introduce a longitudinal element in future analysis that can be taken from the EMAS corpus collected in 2002. These studies can be regarded as benchmarks against which assess the development of the language program in Malaysia.
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Yani. Hope you understand what is the concordance program is all about!. Have fun and good job.
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