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The Text Analysis Program: Developing students' analytical skills

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

John H Gillespie  and
Jane McKee
John H Gillespie
Affiliation:
University of Ulster
Jane McKee
Affiliation:
University of Ulster
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This program is designed for improving student learning skills both in class and in independent learning mode in a number of areas: textual analysis, résumé work and vocabulary extension. It is not a concordance program, although it has some elements of a concordance, but seeks to provide a computerenhanced working environment for the pedagogy of textual study for advanced language learners. Unlike other text-based programs, which mainly deal with text enhancement, concordancing and the provision of exhaustive linguistic analysis of stylistic features, TAP (Text Analysis) is concerned to provide students with a pathway that will enable them to generate their own analysis of any text studied within the program.

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ReCALL , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , November 1998 , pp. 44 - 53
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Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1998

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