A Case for Using a Parallel Corpus and Concordancer for Beginners of a Foreign Language
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This pilot study set out to determine whether a parallel corpus and a concordancer would be appropriate tools to supplement a teaching programme of German at the beginners' level in an unsupervised environment. In this instance, a beginner student of German was asked to find satisfactory answers to unknown vocabulary and formulate appropriate grammar rules for himself using the parallel corpus and concordancer as the only tools. It is shown that these tools can be of great benefit for beginners.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001