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For this post, i will talk about concordance. Before the lecture, i don't have any idea what is concordance. Is it concordance is a subject?Is concordance is a tool?Hmm..thank god after the lecture i understand what is the concordance.
According to www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concordance, concordance is functional as s noun and the meaning of it is an alphabetical index of words in a book or the worksof an author with their immediate contexts.
Here are two articles regarding concordance:
Summary for first article.
This article entitled Concordancers in ELT submitted by Nik Peachy on 25 April,2005. This article consisted five points which are brief explanation about what is concordance, how can concordancers help the teachers, ideas for using concordancers with students, some possible problems while using concordancers and conclusion for this article. For the first point, a concordancer is a software which can be used to search, access and analyse language from the corpus. It is very useful in exploring the relationship between words and to have accurate information about the language used. Secondly, some ways that concordancers can help the teachers which are teachers can have the exact infomations about the language used, therefore teachers can use the exact information to teach to their students. Next, some ideas that are teachers can do to teach concordancers to the students which are exploring collocations, looking at the students mistakes, understanding the different uses or meaning, finding genuine examples and materials creation.However, there are some problems using concordancers such as sometime there limitation in terms of informations used and not all teachers can teach the students using internet,there it will create problem for teachers to teach use the concordancers. For conclusion point, the writer said, it is not easy for both teachers and students to teach and learn using new tools. The writer advised both side practice using it because practice make perfect.
Summary for second article.
For this second article written by John Flowerdew entitled Concordancing in Language Learning.
It is about concordancing defined as is a means of accessing a corpus of text to show how any given word or phrase in the text is used in the immediate contexts in which it appears. By grouping the uses of a particular word or phrase on the computer screen or in printed form, the concordancer shows the patterns in which the given word or phrase is typically used. Besides that, concordancing has many applications such as in the field of lexicography and dictionary making. The best available software for language teaching application has until recently been the Longman Mini Concordancer. This software has many benefits such as easy to be use and with limited instruction students can very quickly start the programmes themselves. The objective to use concordancing are to help the students discover grammartical rules and searching synonym. For the teachers, concordancing is use to use the concordancer as a resource to inform teacher's appreciation of linguistic usage and also as a source of input of teaching. As the conclusion, concordancing helps the teachers and students learn language better way.
My feedback:
After having lecture and read some articles regarding concordance, in my opinion it is very good that we have been exposed with this topic. It is because by concordancing by using the concordancer we have lists of words in contexts which can helps us to analyse and understand the text better and more in depth. Therefore we can analyse the pattern of the text or analyse the hidden meaning behind the text from the word lists. In addition, we can know the same words but in different contexts accurately. This topic is suitable for English Language Studies and Literature's students in order to get accurate information about the English text that we read so that we can understand and explain to people accurately.
