Leveraging Free Word List Programme in Language Teaching and Learning Process:” Corpus-Based Analysis

Dissatisfaction towards language proficiency among students that is the inability of students to use the Malay language to express their thoughts and knowledge has been repeatedly discussed in the Malay language teaching. On the whole, our students pass the exam but do not show the language capabilities in line with its status as the language of science, the language of the modern world relations and the national language. Thus, the process of teaching and effective language learning is needed to enable them to understand and make use of a word in Malay with the right terms and semantic principles. This study was conducted to highlight an alternative strategy in the teaching and learning of grammar. In general, this study focuses on the use of software programmes in Google search engine, in which antconc software is used to analyze corpus –based data from DBP’s Data Base System. This study shows how the programme is capable to help students understand the differences in the use of words that are synonyms, since this kind of words often creates confusion, especially when they try to understand the difference in meaning leading errors in usage. It can be concluded that the process of teaching grammar using Computer Assisted Teaching and Learning approach has proposed an alternative strategy in the teaching and learning of grammar. This strategy is able to supply a wide range of linguistic information to students, particularly in relation to the language system and examines the dynamic characteristics of a word and sentence.