Concordance is “An alphabetical list of the words in a book or a
set of books which also says where each word can be found and often how it is
used.”- Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary(1987)
The usage of a concordancer in the vast field of academic learning
and research studies has proven the possibility of a future orientation on
concordancer to become one of the medium of language learning through computer
applications.
Generally, the application of concordancer allows an English
language learner or teacher to understand and identify particular patterns of
language used according to subjects focused. Knowing that concordance is being
used in vast areas of language and data analysis, it helps language learners to
search for similar usage of words in an index of word-form in understanding the
concepts of the words used.
According Tim Jones(1986), "offers both language
learners and language teachers a research tool for investigating "the company
that words keep" that has hitherto usually been available only on
mainframe computers to academic researchers in such fields as computational
linguistics, lexicography, and stylistics."
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