2008年5月25日 星期日

Vocabulary

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English Grammar

2008年5月16日 星期五

Concordancers

  • What is concordancers?

A concordancer is a computer program that automatically constructs a concordance. The output of a concordancer may serve as input to a translation memory system for computer-assisted translation, or as an early step in machine translation.
Concordancers are also used in corpus linguistics to retrieve alphabetically or otherwise sorted lists of linguistic data from the corpus in question, which the corpus linguist then analyzes. Some concordancers used in corpus linguistics are AntConc (Freeware), ApSIC Xbench, WordSmith, MonoConc, GlossaNet, and CorpusEye.

sources:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordancer

  • Dictionaries & Concordancers
  1. On-line Dictionaries:

The Newbury House Dictionary of American English
Cambridge Dictionaries
Online Thesaurus
Cambridge Dictionaries
Online Thesaurus

2.Concordancers

Virtual Language Centre
Compleat Lexical Tutor
Collins COBUILD ( England)
MICASE (Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English)
BNC (British National Corpus)

Reflective Learning

  • What is Reflective Learning?

Reflective learners prefer to think about new information first before acting on it. They often prefer to think through problems first on their own rather than discussing it in groups. Sitting through lectures can be difficult for reflective learners who often like to have some time out to think through new information.

sources:http://www.jcu.edu.au/studying/services/studyskills/learningst/active.html#reflective

Situated Learning

  • What is Situated Learning:

Situated learning was first proposed by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger as a model of learning in a Community of practice. At its simplest, Situated Learning is learning that takes place in the same context in which it is applied. Lave and Wenger (1991) argue that learning should not be viewed as simply the transmission of abstract and decontextualised knowledge from one individual to another, but a social process whereby knowledge is co-constructed; they suggest that such learning is situated in a specific context and embedded within a particular social and physical environment.

sources:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situated_learning

  • Introducing Situated Learning: