1. Abstract: In India the three – language – formula was implemented a decade ago
to bring the national integration and International Communication effectively. In
the state of Tamil Nadu the regional language and mother tongue is Tamil. Tamil
is one of the traditional languages, which is the root for other Dravidian languages
such as Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Tulu. The Tamil language has its own
traditional, cultural, political and social effects. Because of three language
teaching system, Tamil language teaching has lost its originality. Most of them are
moved to English medium schools and the younger generation children do not
know properly their own mother tongue Tamil. They have spoken Tamil slangs
but they have not known properly the Tamil Grammatical Structure for their
writing, reading, listening and even speaking.
3. II. ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN
TEACHING & LEARNING PROCESS
•Differentiated Instructional Design.
•Individually designed curriculum.
•Multi Channel Learning System.
4. III. THEORIES / METHODS USED IN
EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
•Computer Assisted Language Learning – CALL
•Computer Assisted Language Teaching – CALT
•Computer Assistant Instruction – CAI
•Computer Assisted Learning – CAL
•Computer Based Instruction – CBI
•Computer Directed Instruction – CDI
•Computer Managed Instruction – CMI
5. In the Natural Language Processing Method, language
approach levels are as follows:
•Phonology
•Morphology
•Lexical
•Syntactic
•Semantic
6. V. CORPUS IN LANGUAGE LEARNING
•Language teaching course books based on corpus usually
refer to more common and frequent examples over rare ones to
be more accurate in description and effective in teaching. Even
in traditional manner, corpus is useful for providing
information regarding use of lexical collocation in
understanding patterns of word use (Gavioli 2004).
7. VI. CORPUS LINGUISTICS
A. WHAT IS A CORPUS?
B. GENRE OF TEXT
C. NATURE OF DATA
D. PURPOSE OF DESIGN
E. DETERMINATION OF TARGET USERS
F. METHOD OF DATA INPUT
G. CORPUS IN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
H. VALUE OF CORPUS IN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY (LT)
8. I. FOR DESIGNING LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY TOOLS
•Word processing system
•Spell checking system
•Text editing system
•Morphological processing system
•Sentence parsing system
•Frequency counting system
•Item-search engine
•Text summarisation system
•Text annotation system
•Information retrieval system
•Concordance system
•Sentence parsing system
•Word Sense Disambiguation system
•WordNet design (synset) design
•Semantic Web or Semantic Net
•Parts-of-Speech Tagging system
•Local Word Grouping system
9. J. POTENTIAL UTILISATION OF CORPUS
•Language specialists (interested in the language of the texts)
•Content specialists (interested in the content of the texts), and
•Media specialists (interested in corpus as test bed for electronic devices).
10. VII. Conclusion
VIII. Suggestions
The Future need is to collect the Corpora for each standard
Tamil Language text books and make a Morphological
Analyzer is must for the effective Tamil learning
and teaching through the computer in the class room environment.
