Hi guys...
For this next assigment, I need to write about "Concordance". Do you have any idea about it? Honestly, first time heard this word, I really do not know what it is all about. But, when attending lecture given by Mr. Affendi, then I have a clear picture about concordance. I think so...Huhuhu...However, for those who do not know about it, it is better for me to clarify to you the meaning of concordance. So that you might not keep asking in your heart and mind the actual concept of concordance. First and foremost, "a concordance is an alphabetical list of the principal words used in a book or body of work, with their immediate contexts." To make it short, it is best to say that concordance is an index of words used in the respective articles or journal in order to know how it is used differently in the text and how many times it appears. Here are two summaries of two articles that I've found in the internet.
According to Higgins (1991), the application of concordance in language learning is to rummage around for functions word in order to assist learners to ascertain grammatical rules, and find out the pairs of synonyms to make them aware about the different usage of those words. Other than that, as for teachers, concordance functions as the tool for them to inform the teachers’ appreciation of linguistic usage. Here, the writer takes an example when the teacher wants to teach the students using connectors in Science and Technology. Then, by using concordance, the teacher will be able to show and explain to the students how those connectors are used in the context semantically and syntactically. Furthermore, concordance can be used as a source of input for teaching, which means that teachers can generate authentic instances of usage to present to students when teaching a particular language point. In some point, concordance also beneficial for the learners themselves where it can be used as the errors analysis. In other words, it can be said that, the teachers will show the error made by the students in their writing by using concordance. So that the students can get the clear picture of how to use the words accurately. Concordance is not only use to check the correct way of using the words, but it may allows learners to use it in browsing like through dictionary to find the words for whatever purposes. It is called as serendipity learning (Johns, 1988).
In this study, the writer compares two methods use by learners when they want to correct their errors in grammar which are using grammar book and concordance. The usage of grammar book is one of the traditional methods in order for learners to know what is acceptable. While by using concordance, even though it is not widely used, but it can gives multiple contexts that show rich information on a variety of aspects of knowing a word including grammatical and lexical collocations. Besides, by using concordance, it will expose learners to incalculable contexts and enable learners to regularly create their own structure that incorporates complex structures of the system.
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