Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Your Good Partners- Concordancers and Collocation Retrieval System

Don't know how to choose a correct and proper adverb to describe a verb?
It happens a lot!! Especially for students major in Applied Foreign Language just like us.

But the problem could be solved by a friendly used corpus-based reference tools- Concordancers and Collocation Retrieval Systems.

After a clear introduction by the professor, a novice like me can easily run the system without much effort.
Concordancers and Collocation Retrieval Systems provide a useful function for english learners to identify a common and suitable usage of vocabularies.
It's a friendly used system just like when you're trying to find a item through the Yahoo! Online Aution System.
Compare to the dictionaries we usually use, the
Collocation System can list a long string of common vocabularies usage in a few seconds.
But on the other hand, dictionaries offer us a correct definition,
the phonetic symbols of vocabularies and many example sentences we can follow.

However, both dictionaries and
Concordancers and Collocation Retrieval Systems are valuable and benefitial encyclopeadias for English learners.





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