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Topics to Be Covered
• What is concordancing
• Concordancers
• Web based resources
• Materials creation
• Linguistics
• Summary
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Concordance
• is an alphabetical list of the
principal words used in a book or
body of work, with their immediate
contexts
• KWIC (key word in context)
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Web based Corpus
• American National Corpus
• http://americannationalcorpus.org
• British National Corpus
• http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
• International Corpus of English
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-
usage/ice/avail.htm
• COBuild Corpus
http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/C
orpusSearch.aspx
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Collocations
• a sequence of words or terms
which co-occur more often than
would be expected by chance
• collocations are characteristic, co-
occurence patterns of words. For
example: "Christmas" may
collocate with "tree", "angel“
&"presents"
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Linguistics
• study of a text
• comparing different usages of the
same word
• analysing keywords
• analysing word frequencies
• finding and analysing phrases and
idioms
• creating indexes and word lists
(also useful for publishing)
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Materials creation
• Create lists of language patterns
e.g. a list of irregular verbs
ordered according to the frequency
of occurrence
• Create test items instead of
artificial unnatural ones for
patterns taught
• Justify particular linguistic
intuitions by authentic evidence
• Clarify stylistic problems in writing
by illustrations
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In the classroom
• Example sentences
providing students with a large
amount of example sentences
• Example sentences with gaps
without the key words, so that they
have to use their grammatical and
lexical knowledge to fill the gaps
• categorize
Many common words have a number
of usages and meanings. Students can
be given some concordances of a
single word, and told to group them
according to usage.
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In the classroom 2
• Find the rule
Rather than tell students a particular rule, students can be
given a set of concordances and asked to discover for
themselves what rules can be deduced from the evidence.
This could be something simple such as discovering that
the verb form changes the third person. In addition, this
task can be done with more complex patterns such as
collocations.
• As a computer quiz
With the advent of cheap and free authoring software it is
now possible to create ones own internet quizzes (see 'hot
Potato'). With such software it is possible to create quizzes
in which students have to fill gaps. Just as these gaps can
be part of a larger passage of text, they can also be part of
concordance lines. Furthermore, with these kinds of online
'tests' it is possible to give students instant feedback.
• categorize
Many common words have a number of usages and
meanings. Students can be given some concordances of a
single word, and told to group them according to usage.
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In the classroom 3
• Hot Potatoes http://www.nsknet.or.jp/~peterr-
s/concordancing/onlineconcquiz/hotpotato/hp_efh
_u06.htm
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Conclusion
• Review conference schedule
• Distribute sign up sheet
• Review expectations for parent
conferences
• Explain how you can be reached to
discuss concerns