The Use of Concordancer in Language Teaching 98輔導團到校諮詢服務 玉井國中 蔡佳宏

A. What’s Concordancer According to the Collins Cobuild English Dictionary: “An alphabetical list of the words in a book or s set of books which also says where each word can be found and often how it is used”

B. Application in teaching Practical function and scholarly Real language Authenticity of the learning context Analytical powers Language awareness Curiosity and learner independence

C. Teaching Activities Guess the mystery word The students’ awareness Formulate the rule Differentiate use of false friends Coffee or tea Change in language use Changing life-style Use of preposition Syntax of adverbs Reason + because Students writing …

Teaching Activities Changing life-style Use of preposition Syntax of adverbs Reason + because Students writing …

Preparing yourself and students Prepare yourself Write down what that purpose is. List all the steps and sub-steps necessary to achieve it. Am I ready to cope with discovery learning. Decide discussion topic. Preparing your texts Try first.

Preparing yourself and students Preparing your students Make sure students understand the basic mechanism, appearance and limitation of a concordance. Make sure the learning objective are clear to them. Independence from authority Raw data

Useful links Try to use the keywords, “corpus” and “concordancer” on the Internet. 輔導團網站。