Developmental and Crosslinguistic Perspectives in Learner Corpus Research.

This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research and developments on the use of learner corpora perceived from developmental and crosslinguistic perspectives. The book is divided into two parts. The eleven contributions of Part I investigate the development of English language sk...

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Main Author: Tono, Yukio
Other Authors: Kawaguchi, Yuji, Minegishi, Makoto
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012.
Series:Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Developmental and Crosslinguistic Perspectivesin Learner Corpus Research; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Contents; Message from the President; Center for Corpus-based Linguistics and Language Education; Introduction; Part 1 The International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage (ICCI); The English Profile:Using Learner Data to Develop the CEFR for English; International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage: Project Overview and a Case Study on the Acquisition of New Verb Co-occurrence Patterns; Compilation and Exploration of ICCI Corpusfor Learner Language Research.
  • The Use of Demonstrative Reference in EnglishTexts by Austrian School-age LearnersThe Role of Conventionalized Language inthe Acquisition and Use of Articles by PolishEFL Learners; The Use of Intensifying Adverbs in LearnerWriting; Profiling EFL Learners' Writing Performanceby Syntactic Complexity: A Corpus-based Study; A Cross-sectional Analysis of the Use of the EnglishArticle System in Spanish Learner Writing; Lexical Richness and Variation in the Writing of School-age EFL Learners at Different Learning Stages and Different Educational Systems.
  • Use and Misuse of Cohesive Devices inthe Writings of EFL Chinese Learners: A Corpus-based StudyNormalising Frequency Counts to Accountfor 'opportunity of use' in Learner Corpora; Part 2 Issues of Learner Corpus Research: Focus on Speech Data; Spanish Learners' Production of French CloseRounded Vowels: A Corpus-based Perceptual Study; Coding an L2 Phonological Corpus: From Perceptual Assessment to Non-native Speech Models-An Illustrationwith French Nasal Vowels-; Design and Analysis of Asian English SpeechCorpus-How to Elicit L1 Phonology in L2 English Data-
  • Lexical Profileof French Learner Speech: The Case of Japanese University StudentsWhat's (not) in a Corpus?-What to Lookfor in a Learner Corpus of Spoken English-; The Use of Multi-word Units in LearnerLanguage Narratives: Are there Qualitative and/or Quantitative Differences between Japanese ESL Learners and EFL Learners?; Corpus-based Analysis of Lexical Collocationsby Intermediate Japanese Language Learners-With a Focus on the Verb Suru; Index of Proper Nouns; Index of Subjects; Contributors.