Which approach analyzes words and grammar patterns in a text to help with comprehension, often with computers?

• A. Corpus analysis
• B. Jumpstart
• C. The Insert method
• D. Word clouds

Answer: (A)

Analyzing words and grammar patterns in a text to support comprehension, often with computers, is corpus analysis. A corpus is a large collection of authentic texts that you study to see how language is actually used. By examining which words appear most often, which words tend to occur together (collocations), and which grammatical structures show up across many sentences, learners gain a sense of typical language usage. This helps with comprehension because you can predict meanings from context, recognize common sentence patterns, and build fluency by noticing how language is put together in real materials. Computer tools can quickly pull up frequency lists, show concordances (instances of a word in context), and map how grammar is used across different genres or registers, making pattern recognition faster and more reliable. Word clouds display frequent words visually but don’t reveal how those words function together in sentences or vary across contexts, so they’re less effective for understanding grammar and usage. Jumpstart isn’t a linguistic analysis approach for texts, and The Insert method isn’t a standard method used in this area.