Learning Log4

Date: 25/07/2016

     This week, I learnt outside the classroom about Introduction Corpus Linguistics: Concordances with Mr.Kriangkrai Vathanalaoha.He taught me about definition of corpus. Corpus is a large collection of texts. It is a body of written or spoken material upon which a linguistic analysis is based. The plural form of corpus is corpora. I knew Corpus began in 1897s and 1950s-1960s, historical overview, and the case for introspection; Chomsky said we should focus on language competence rather than language performance.After that I learnt about 7 types of Corpora.

1. Special Corpus

2. General Corpus(BNC)

3. Multilingual Corpus

4. Parallel Corpus

5. Learner Corpus

6. Historical or Diachronic Corpus

7. Monitor Corpus

Moreover, I learnt about process in Corpus Linguistics. Corpus could told about frequencies of word that I wanted to know how did it used, collocation, distribution information, keywords, and dispersion plots. Finally, I got a lot of knowledge from Corpus Linguistics listening training and it was very useful to use in my English learning.