Week 9 posting

In Can learners use concordance feedback for writing errors, Gaskell and Cobb talks about how concordance helps students with sentence-level written errors with feedbacks. Concordance refers to a list of words that are commonly used, in which they might all sound or look alike, so it makes it easier for users when writing, it saves time and leaners can also take this opportunity to learn new words. Gaskell and Cobb has advocated a system which is intended to help learners correct their own errors by the use of concordance and to learn from it. The study shows that there are progress in the student's grammar by the use of concordance and appropriate corrections were made. In my school I don't think we can ever have a system like that since I work at a kindergarten. Too much resources and manpower needs to be involved regarding the data input, uploading and creating applications. I think concordance can be a useful system to help elementary and secondary students though, it can help them by providing them with new vocabulary as well as help them with the use of grammar.