Computer Application in English Language Teaching

Using Corpus Analysis Software to Analyse Specialized Texts 1. What is a corpus?  In corpus linguistics, a corpus can be generally defined as… ‘ a collection of naturally - occurring texts in a computer - readable format which can be retrieved and analyzed using corpus analysis software ’   ( Kennedy, 1998; McEnery & Wilson, 2001; O ’ Keeffe, A . , McCarthy, M . , & Carter, R .  , 2007; Teubert & Cermakova, 2007 ) 2.Sources of language corpora - http :// www . natcorp . ox . ac . uk /  ·   - http :// corpus . leeds . ac . uk / protected / query . html   - http :// corpus . byu . edu / - http :// lextutor . ca / conc / eng /   - Antconc’ ( http :// www . antlab . sci . waseda . ac . jp / software . html )   ( http :// www . lexically . net / wordsmith / )   - ‘ Paraconc’ ( http :// www . athel . com / para . html )   3. Designing a specialized corpus             Corpus size -           There are no fixed ruled; depending on research pur

Computer Assisted Language Learning and English Language Teaching in Thailand 1. Introduction English becomes in  Thailand for ages, including trading, information technology , even education . At the present, English language in the teaching is encountered slow process . Thus, teacher and people who is related creating education must pay immediate attention in order to improve ETL in Thailand . They try to help student to meet international demands and to be able to fully and successfully participate in international community . Computer have entered have strongly influenced our life in every domain of community because of its availability and education technology . \ These technologies have become powerful tools to communicate with people and globe, since they are faster, easier, and more convenient to use than other older media . especially, role of computers in language education are increasing worldwide because of leaner that use of internet and can communicate