This proceedings volume covers issues of learner corpus design, collection and annotation and contains reports on various aspects of (written and spoken) learner interlanguage as well as design of learner-corpus-informed... Lire la suite
Learner corpus research is a young but vibrant new brand of research which stands at a crossroads between corpus linguistics, second language acquisition and foreign language teaching. Its origins go back to the late 1980s when academics and publishers started collecting data from foreign/second language learners with a view to advancing our understanding of the mechanisms of second language acquisition and/or developing pedagogical tools and methods that more accurately target the needs of language learners. At first limited to English as a Foreign Language, learner corpus research has begun to spread to a wide range of languages and as a result, the community group of learner corpus researchers is rapidly growing and diversifying. The First Learner Corpus Research Conference organized by the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics of the Université catholique de Louvain in September 2011 aimed to take stock of the advances made in the field in its over twenty years of existence. The resulting proceedings volume covers issues of learner corpus design, collection and annotation and contains reports on various aspects of (written and spoken) learner interlanguage – pronunciation, prosody, grammar, lexis, phraseology and discourse – as well as design of learner-corpus-informed tools. The volume also explores some of the ways in which learner corpus research could develop in the near future.
Katherine ACKERLEY
A comparison of learner and native speaker writing in online self-presentations: Pedagogical applications
Theodora ALEXOPOULOU, Helen YANNAKOUDAKIS & Angeliki SALAMOURA
Classifying intermediate learner English: A data-driven approach to learner
corpora
Margit BRECKLE & Heike ZINSMEISTER
L1 transfer versus fixed chunks: A learner corpus-based study of L2 German
Julian BROOKE & Graeme HIRST
Native language detection with 'cheap' learner corpora
Marcus CALLIES & Ekaterina ZAYTSEVA
The Corpus of Academic Learner English (CALE) – A new resource for the study and assessment of advanced language proficiency
Erik CASTELLO
Integrating learner corpus data into the assessment of spoken interaction in English in an Italian university context
Evelyne CAUVIN
Intonational phrasing as a potential indicator for establishing prosodic learner profiles
Meilin CHEN
Phrasal verbs in a longitudinal learner corpus: Quantitative findings
Pieter DE HAAN & Monique VAN DER HAAGEN
The search for sophisticated language in advanced EFL writing: A longitudinal study
Deise P. DUTRA & Tony Berber SARDINHA
Referential expressions in English learner argumentative writing
Anna ESPUNYA
Investigating lexical difficulties of learners in the error-annotated UPF learner translation corpus
Michael FLOR & Yoko FUTAGI
Producing an annotated corpus with automatic spelling correction
Costas GABRIELATOS
If-conditionals in ICLE and the BNC: A success story for teaching or learning?
Thomas GAILLAT
This and that in native and learner English: From typology of use to tagset characterisation
Francesca GALLINA
The Lexicon of Spoken Italian by Foreigners: A study on the acquisition of vocabulary by L2 Italian learners between measures of lexical richness and lexical fields
Pascale GOUTERAUX
Learners of English and conversational proficiency
Jonė GRIGALIŪNIENĖ & Rita JUKNEVIČIENĖ
Recurrent formulaic sequences in the speech and writing of the Lithuanian learners of English
Hagen HIRSCHMANN, Anke LÜDELING, Ines REHBEIN, Marc REZNICEK & Amir ZELDES
Underuse of syntactic categories in Falko: A case study on modification
Jarmo Harri JANTUNEN & Sisko BRUNNI
Morphology, lexical priming and second language acquisition: A corpus-study on learner Finnish
Régis KAWECKI
A beginner French learner corpus
Elma KERZ
Concessive adverbial clauses in L2 academic writing
Yuichiro KOBAYASHI
A comparison of spoken and written learner corpora: Analyzing developmental 277 patterns of vocabulary used by Japanese EFL learners
Sun-Hee LEE, Markus DICKINSON & Ross ISRAEL
Corpus-based error analysis of Korean particles
Stéphanie LOPEZ, Anne CONDAMINES & Amélie JOSSELIN-LERAY
An LSP learner corpus to help with English radiotelephony teaching
Cristóbal LOZANO & Amaya MENDIKOETXEA
Corpus and experimental data: Subjects in second language research
Iakira MURAKAMI
Cross-linguistic influence on the accuracy order of L2 English grammatical morphemes
Susana MURCIA-BIELSA & Penny MACDONALD
The TREACLE project: Profiling learner proficiency using error and syntactic analysis
Susan NACEY & Anne-Line GRAEDLER
Communication strategies used by Norwegian students of English
Masumi NARITA
The use of articles in Japanese EFL learners' essays
Barbara Malveira ORFANÒ
Analysing the use of vague language in spoken interlanguage: A corpus-based study of a group of Brazilian university students learning English as a second language
Magali PAQUOT, Hilde HASSELGÅRD & Signe OKSEFJELL EBELING
Writer/reader visibility in learner writing across genres: A comparison of the French and Norwegian components of the ICLE and VESPA learner corpora
Nina RESHÖFT & Linn GRALLA
On the use of spatial prepositions: Differences in L1 and L2 English
Sylvi RØRVIK & Thomas EGAN
Connectors in the argumentative writing of Norwegian novice writers
Christine S. SING
Shell noun patterns in student writing in English for specific academic purposes
Marianne SPOELMAN
The (under)use of partitive objects in Estonian, German and Dutch learners of Finnish
Barbora ŠTINDLOVÁ, Svatava ŠKODOVÁ, Alexandr ROSEN & Jirka HANA
A learner corpus of Czech: Current state and future directions
Misuzu TAKAMI & Naoko AKAHORI
Inappropriate uses of psychological verbs by Japanese learners of English
Hiroko USAMI
Using a learner corpus to improve distractors in multiple choice grammar
questions
Elaine W. VINE
Corpora and coursebooks compared: Category ambiguous words
Nina VYATKINA
Analyzing part-of-speech variability in a longitudinal learner corpus and a pedagogic corpus
Leo WANNER, Margarita ALONSO RAMOS, Orsolya VINCZE, Rogelio NAZAR, Gabriela FERRARO, Estela MOSQUEIRA & Sabela PRIETO
Annotation of collocations in a learner corpus for building a learning environment
Chih-Yi WU, Hintat CHEUNG & Zao-Ming GAO
The adverbialization of BUT in Taiwan EFL writing