Concordancers and Concordances: Tools for Chinese Language Teaching and Research
Marjorie K.M. Chan
In Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, Volume 37:2. May 2002.
This paper presents an introduction to concordancers, and to the concordancing of Chinese e-texts in particular. Demonstrations are given of searches using spaced and non-spaced source e-texts, with the concordance results presented in Keyword-in-Context (KWIC) display format. There are illustrations to accompany discussions of full-text concordances, and of concordances targeting specific words or phrases. The writer suggests how concordancers might be used in language-teaching and in conducting research on various linguistic phenomena of the Chinese language. An appendix compares several concordancing programs capable of handling Chinese e-texts.
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/chan9/articles/Chan_JCLTA-2002.pdf
Marjorie K.M. Chan
In Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, Volume 37:2. May 2002.
This paper presents an introduction to concordancers, and to the concordancing of Chinese e-texts in particular. Demonstrations are given of searches using spaced and non-spaced source e-texts, with the concordance results presented in Keyword-in-Context (KWIC) display format. There are illustrations to accompany discussions of full-text concordances, and of concordances targeting specific words or phrases. The writer suggests how concordancers might be used in language-teaching and in conducting research on various linguistic phenomena of the Chinese language. An appendix compares several concordancing programs capable of handling Chinese e-texts.
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/chan9/articles/Chan_JCLTA-2002.pdf