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Concordancers in the EFL classroom 孫于智 助理教授 國立交通大學 語言教學與研究中心 E-mail: sunyc@.tw Overview What is concordancer? Why use concordancer? Who can use concordancer? What can you do with concordancer? Application of computer corpus Concordancer development Related research What is a Concordancer? A program which lists every occurrence of a given word, punctuation mark, affix,, or structure within a given text, showing its immediate context Makes hidden patterns readily apparent. The output, so produced, is called a concordance Concordancer Online 香港理工大學 .hk/concordance/31/Concord.htm 雲林科技大學.tw/concordancer/index.htm 交通大學1/class1/word/WordGuess6.asp British National Corpus (BNC) concordancer http://sara.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/lookup.html ? Collins Co-build concordancer http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/form.html#democonc Why use Concordancers? Underlying Assumptions: Includes both written and spoken language, Learners’ engagement with text plays a central role in the learning process Fosters inductive learning Favors discovery learning Empowers learners Injects authenticity Enhance awareness of the meaning potential of English Who can use Concordancers? Teachers Gather material for creating exercises based on real examples. Create printed handouts Students Gain exposure to an endless series of examples Look at examples; inductively come up with the rules Confirm or reject hypotheses about specific points in the language Exposure to many different styles genres What can you do with them? Explore ….. word forms word usage vocabulary grammatical features syntax agreement stylistics collocation punctuation Four ways to learn from corpus Contingent reference Reference in text production Reference in text reception Studying a language issue Serendipitous exploration Encyclopedic and oracular use Skeptical about Concordancer “ Simply dumping 200 mullion words of corpus data in front of people isn’t going to be much help for most teachers and st