Journal of English Language Teaching

Effects of Concordance Feedback on Engineering Students’ English Vocabulary Learning

Dr. Suresh Babu Aremanda

Professor of English, Department of English, VFSTR Deemed to be University, Vadlamudi, A.P., India-522213

Ravibabu Velga

Asst. Professor of English, Department of English, VFSTR Deemed to be University, Vadlamudi, A.P., India-522213

Dr. B. Karuna

Associate Professor of English, Acharya Nagarjuna University, A.P., India-522510

Keywords: Corpus, BNC (British National Corpus), Concordancer, ICT (Information and Communication Technology), CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning, incidental vocabulary

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Abstract

The main objective of the present research study is to investigate the effects of concordance reference to learn implicit vocabulary. For this purpose, the present study proposes British National Corpus (BNC) language data to learn contextual vocabulary through cloze test reading. Despite some difficulties, the study found that participants of the study analysed the language data successfully and identified word’s correct meaning in multiple choice of wordsand usage in the concordances i.e. keyword in context (KWIC) format. The study also presents participants’ beliefs and practical difficulties towards the concordance activities.

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