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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
CONCORDANCE...
During my recent tutorial which is in 8 Mac 2007, we were put in groups of 4 to discuss for about 15 till 20 minutes about CONCORDANCE and its use in the language learning. CONCORDANCE is actually a software that is developed for analyzing language data. For example, the CONCORDANCE program can help you to find and list down a certain word that you want from a single text or from a of bunch text. For the discussion, we were asked to explain the occurrences that had been listed which is of the article ‘a’, the prepositions ‘about’ and ‘above’ and also noun- ‘absence’ and ‘Adam’.
After the discussion, we found out that the occurrences of the article ‘a’ are in three position. All the article ‘a’ are in the position of a noun phrase, adverbial phrase and adverbial clause. As we can see, the article ‘a’ is found to occur before any other pre and post- modifier of a noun phrase or simply put, these words appear in front of a noun phrase . There are a few examples that we could detect from the list which is ‘a pang of agony’, ‘a word of blame’, ‘a dreary winter’. Besides that, we also can see the article ‘a’ occurrences in adverbial phrases and clauses for example ‘in a drowsy tone’, ‘for a minute or two’, ‘at a pretty quick pace’, ‘with a blow’, and also ‘in a strange kind of vivid dream’.
In addition, we also discovered that the article ‘a’ can also able to change or transform a word which is a verb into a noun. We can observed this transformation in the following noun phrases- ‘a look’, ‘a blow’, ‘a shot’, ‘a cry’, and ‘a fall’. All the words after the article ‘a’ are actually verbs, but they are transformed into nouns after addition of the article ‘a’.
Next, our discussion also finds out about another function of the ‘a’ the in noun phrases, adverbial phrases and adverbial clauses in some of the complete sentences analysed. In some part of the noun phrase, the article ‘a’ can act as a subject complement. For example, the noun phrase like (‘I suppose I was a clever lad’ and ‘I sat at a pretty quick pace’). It also can function as an object for example, (‘I plucked up a brave heart’) and also can function as adverbials of manner in adverbial phrases and clauses (‘I could not reply for a minute or two’, ‘I said, in a drowsy tone’, ‘at a pretty quick pace’, and ‘I might greet her with a blow’).
After that, we moved our discussion to the function of the preposition ‘about’. For example, we can see that the preposition are used to denote ‘on the topic of subject of’.‘Who told me all this about my poor mother’, ‘did not often think about him’, ‘many voices about me’ are the examples that we can give from the list. Besides that, the prepositions that is been added to the phrasal verbs functions as adverbs, and we can the examples like ‘I tried to move about’, ‘feared that, in moving about…’, ‘when all were running about in wild alarm’. They are also used to explain something which is not certain like ‘When I was about sixteen’, ‘by the road, but only about four’, and ‘an errand to a place about seven miles’.
Finally, we analyzed the function of ‘above’ which is to denote ‘higher on a scale of measuring’. For instance, ‘not above half-an-hour’s walk from…’, ‘might not be above his comprehension’. There are examples that we can see where the word ‘absence’ can act as a noun and as an adjectives . In the samples given from the list, ‘absence’ acts as a noun and adjective while ‘Adam’ act as nouns respectively. As for ‘absence’, ‘by my prolonged absence’, ‘absence’ is a noun and the phrase ‘looking absent and moody’- ‘absence’ functions as an adjective. In the case of ‘Adam’, they all function as nouns, to refer to a person and act as Object. In the samples included, ‘absence’ acts as a noun and adjective while ‘Adam’ act as nouns. As for ‘absence’, ‘by my prolonged absence’, the word ‘absence’ is a noun and the phrase ‘looking absent and moody’, absent functions as an adjective. For the word ‘Adam’, they are all functioning as nouns. They refer to a person and act as an Object.
From the article on "BEYOND CONCORDANCE LINES: USING CONCORDANCE TO INVESTIGATE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT (Arshad Abd. Samad, UPM) from the ONLINE TEACHING AND LEARNING IN ELT book, I can summarized that the CONCORDANCE software such as Wordsmith, MonoConc Pro and Microoncord has enhanced the use of the language corpus in helping in tedious tasks. Even teachers, researchers and language learners use concordance software. Schmit (2000:34) also argues that among the benefit of using corpus in language teaching and learning is that it may help student to enjoy the systematic of a language. But in Malaysia, its use is limited and is buy-and-large unavailable.
After the discussion, we found out that the occurrences of the article ‘a’ are in three position. All the article ‘a’ are in the position of a noun phrase, adverbial phrase and adverbial clause. As we can see, the article ‘a’ is found to occur before any other pre and post- modifier of a noun phrase or simply put, these words appear in front of a noun phrase . There are a few examples that we could detect from the list which is ‘a pang of agony’, ‘a word of blame’, ‘a dreary winter’. Besides that, we also can see the article ‘a’ occurrences in adverbial phrases and clauses for example ‘in a drowsy tone’, ‘for a minute or two’, ‘at a pretty quick pace’, ‘with a blow’, and also ‘in a strange kind of vivid dream’.
In addition, we also discovered that the article ‘a’ can also able to change or transform a word which is a verb into a noun. We can observed this transformation in the following noun phrases- ‘a look’, ‘a blow’, ‘a shot’, ‘a cry’, and ‘a fall’. All the words after the article ‘a’ are actually verbs, but they are transformed into nouns after addition of the article ‘a’.
Next, our discussion also finds out about another function of the ‘a’ the in noun phrases, adverbial phrases and adverbial clauses in some of the complete sentences analysed. In some part of the noun phrase, the article ‘a’ can act as a subject complement. For example, the noun phrase like (‘I suppose I was a clever lad’ and ‘I sat at a pretty quick pace’). It also can function as an object for example, (‘I plucked up a brave heart’) and also can function as adverbials of manner in adverbial phrases and clauses (‘I could not reply for a minute or two’, ‘I said, in a drowsy tone’, ‘at a pretty quick pace’, and ‘I might greet her with a blow’).
After that, we moved our discussion to the function of the preposition ‘about’. For example, we can see that the preposition are used to denote ‘on the topic of subject of’.‘Who told me all this about my poor mother’, ‘did not often think about him’, ‘many voices about me’ are the examples that we can give from the list. Besides that, the prepositions that is been added to the phrasal verbs functions as adverbs, and we can the examples like ‘I tried to move about’, ‘feared that, in moving about…’, ‘when all were running about in wild alarm’. They are also used to explain something which is not certain like ‘When I was about sixteen’, ‘by the road, but only about four’, and ‘an errand to a place about seven miles’.
Finally, we analyzed the function of ‘above’ which is to denote ‘higher on a scale of measuring’. For instance, ‘not above half-an-hour’s walk from…’, ‘might not be above his comprehension’. There are examples that we can see where the word ‘absence’ can act as a noun and as an adjectives . In the samples given from the list, ‘absence’ acts as a noun and adjective while ‘Adam’ act as nouns respectively. As for ‘absence’, ‘by my prolonged absence’, ‘absence’ is a noun and the phrase ‘looking absent and moody’- ‘absence’ functions as an adjective. In the case of ‘Adam’, they all function as nouns, to refer to a person and act as Object. In the samples included, ‘absence’ acts as a noun and adjective while ‘Adam’ act as nouns. As for ‘absence’, ‘by my prolonged absence’, the word ‘absence’ is a noun and the phrase ‘looking absent and moody’, absent functions as an adjective. For the word ‘Adam’, they are all functioning as nouns. They refer to a person and act as an Object.
From the article on "BEYOND CONCORDANCE LINES: USING CONCORDANCE TO INVESTIGATE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT (Arshad Abd. Samad, UPM) from the ONLINE TEACHING AND LEARNING IN ELT book, I can summarized that the CONCORDANCE software such as Wordsmith, MonoConc Pro and Microoncord has enhanced the use of the language corpus in helping in tedious tasks. Even teachers, researchers and language learners use concordance software. Schmit (2000:34) also argues that among the benefit of using corpus in language teaching and learning is that it may help student to enjoy the systematic of a language. But in Malaysia, its use is limited and is buy-and-large unavailable.
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1 Comments:
Where is your photo? The background is only half of you. Maybe I could see more of your pictures in last posting . Learn on your own concordance program ok.
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