1. The Use of Concordancer in Language Teaching
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2. 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”

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

4. 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 …

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

6. 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.

7. 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

8. Useful links
Try to use the keywords, “corpus” and “concordancer” on the Internet.
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