Thursday, March 15, 2007

A summary of beyond concordance lines

The language corpus offers is a useful resource in language learning. We can detect language corpus in normal dictionary and teaching aids. Language corpus or concordance is getting easier by the day because of the introduction of certain programs such as Wordsmith, MonoConc Pro and Microconcord. These programs assist in the tedious task in analyzing language and greatly extend the potential of a corpus in language pedagogy. This way language learner can discover how words and grammatical construction are used. This help the language learners to interest in language learning than bored of the rules. New software helps learners by giving additional information to corpus studies. In Malaysian context the analysis of language corpora is limited and unavailable by-and large.

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