CONCORDANCE

4th POSTING: CONCORDANCE

Here comes my fourth posting the task that my lecturer has given me is based “Beyond Concordance Lines: Using Concordances to Investigate Language Development” from our OTL book (page 70) by Arshad Abdul Samad from University Putra Malaysia. After read this article we have to write the gist of the discussion and the summary of the article so this I have to do as a pair work. As a pair work Sharon and I work on it.

The article is mainly about an investigates language development based on data in EMAS corpus using language production as well as lexical variety as indicators of development. What is concordance actually mean? As I know concordance is a row of a certain word listed. The listing of certain word make easier for us to identify coz it only list the word we want only. Now let’s come back to the article according to (Woo lard 2000) the language corpus has commonly been used as the basis of dictionaries and teaching materials. Besides that it has the easy availability of concordance software such as Wordsmith, MonoConc Pro and Micro concord. Moreover it helps in the tedious task of analyzing language data and greatly extends the potential of a corpus in language pedagogy. Teachers, researchers and even language learners examine concordance lines to discover how words and grammatical constructions are used.

Regarding to Schmitt (2002:34) argue that rather than using a corpus in language teaching and learning is that it may help students to “look at the systematicity of language as an interesting linguistic puzzle, a new software such as RANGE, which have been developed by practitioners in linguistics has provided an additional perspective to corpus studies (Nation,2002).

Concordance also helps students to make indexes and word lists, count word frequencies, analyze keywords, compare different usage of a word, find phrases and idioms, publish to the web-see the web and so on. There many advantages of using these software. It is might help students to look at the system of language. Concordance is mainly for those who really need to study texts closely or analyze language.

Concordance also can be used and apply in language teaching and learning, data mining and data clean-up, literary work and linguistic, translation, corpus linguistics and content analysis.

Here is the application of concordance in translation. For further information view:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_memory
http://en.wikipedia.org.wiki/Translation