Gaskell and Cobb (2004)

In the article of Gaskell and Cobb (2004), online concordance can be used to help a group of low-intermediate level students improve their writing skills. Feedback is given to students on word-level and sentence-level errors through the authentic data base. For my own teaching environment, it seems to be impossible to implement it because my students are low-motivated and low ability students. They even don't know how to write simple sentences, let alone understand the explanations given in this software. Therefore, I think it is for high-motivated and self-motivated learners. They will find this more convenient and useful for self learning than paper dictionaries.