CONCORDANCE

The language corpus has been used as the basis of dictionaries and teaching materials. It may help students to 'look at the systematic of language as an interesting linguistic puzzle, rather than a set of boring rules to be memorized’.

Concordance software can be used to help analyze the language data. It is easily disturbed by the huge amount of data available. It has used a local learner corpus in order to highlight the existence of such corpora as well as the efficacy of these corpora in corpus-based studies.

The result of the concordance and analysis indicate some form of development in terms of language production as well as vocabulary range and sophistication. The article demonstrates that corpus data can be analyzed to inform language educators of language development. While development in this study is examined cross sectionally, it may be possible to introduce a longitudinal element in future analysis.

The data used in this study was taken from the EMAS corpus collected in 2002.Similar data can be collected from respondents of the same age group in later years and compared against the values found in the study.