Date:25/07/2016
On this week, I joined with training about Corpus Linguistics by Dr. Kriangkrai Vathanalaoha from Srinakarinwirot University. I learned Corpus was not only a collection
of words but it is a collection of written or spoken material stored on a computer and used to find out how language is used. It was a methadology
of language and corpus was created since 1897. It was around
19th - early 20th century.The first corpus wrote about child diaries. In addition, I learned the seven types of corpora. - Special Corpus: It was a specific information.
- General Corpus: It was broad and large words of spoken and written British English.
- Mutilingual Corpus: It added Spanish or American English and Indian English.
- Parallel Corpus: It was a translate text from English language to another language.
- Learner Corpus: Language use crated by people learning a particular language.
- Historical or Diachronic Corpus: 1.5 million words of text from 700AD - 1700AD.
- Monitor Corpus: Continually being added to.
Today, I learned the General Corpus about the concordances of words which could make we understand a word by see their context.In the Corpus, we could find the collections that were used mostly or and I could set the number of words that I wanted to know, or the frequency by click Distribution information.Moreover, I practiced to use corpus to search some phrase such as swanning around which meant in negative way.T. Kriangkrai gave exercise to us and taught If I waned to know some word that use with another word I could search "something * about him" and the word or adjective that could be used with men would be appeared.
Finally, Corpus was a useful tool for students and teachers could use it to collect and search the information. The most important we have to know How to apply it to make our studying or teaching have efficiency.
