Dear reader, now we move on to concordance which is also part of Corpus Linguistics. What is a concordancer? A concordancer is a piece of software, either installed on a computer or accessed through a website, which can be used to search, access and analyse language from a corpus. They can be particularly useful in exploring the relationships between words and can give us very accurate information about the way language is authentically used.
How can a concordancer benefits us?
•We can check that the uses and collocations of words we are teaching are the most frequent, up to date and correct.
•We can find authentic examples to demonstrate and reinforce the language we are teaching.
•We can use them to create our own worksheets based on authentic materials.
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