Assignment 4: Please comment on the corpus-based reference tools, (i.e., concordancers and collocation retrieval systems). How do you like these tools? What are their strength and weakness, in comparison with a dictionary? What are the difficulties you encounter when you used these tools?
Corpus help me to understand more about the language and see how people use it when they speak and when they write.
For learner ,it is just like teacher give us lots of examples. I think that is the strength of these tools. But sometimes when I saw full of words in front of me. It makes me confused. So we must to select the right Corpus which is suit for us. I think CCRS is a good one for me because it shows frequency of the words. It is more clear and more convenient. Although Corpus can provide large information of words, it still has weakness. I think is that if you don’t know the really definition of the word. You can't use it. After all only dictionaries provide clear meaning and definition of the word.
The conclusion of these tool is Dictionary and Corpus are both good assistants. It needs use together.
The difficulties I encounter is when I used CCRS. I can't input of speech of KW and Part of speech of the associated word correctly.
Being different is torturous for me
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