Learner Corpus Research New Perspectives and Applications

by Flowerdew, Lynne; Brezina, Vaclav; Mahlberg, Michaela; Teubert, Wolfgang

• ISBN13: 9781474272889
• ISBN10: 1474272886
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-05-18
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This volume showcases original, agenda-setting studies in the field of learner corpus research of both spoken and written production. The studies have important applications for classroom pedagogy.

The volume brings readers up-to-date with new written and spoken learner corpora, often looking at previously under-examined variables in learner corpus investigations. It also demonstrates innovative applications of learner corpus findings, addressing issues such as the effect of task, the effect of learner variables and the nature of learner language.

The volume is of significant interest to researchers working in corpus linguistics, learner corpus research, second language acquisition and English for Academic and Specific Purposes, as well to practitioners interested in the application of the findings in language teaching and assessment.

Author Biography

Vaclav Brezina is a Senior Research Associate at the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University.
Lynne Flowerdew has recently retired from the Center for Language Education, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and now works as an independent scholar.

Table of Contents

Preface, Professor Tony McEnery
Introduction, Vaclav Brezina and Lynne Flowerdew
Part I: Focus on Task and Learner Variables
1. Language use in the Cambridge Learner Corpus: The effect of topic, Andrew Caines and Paula Buttery (University of Cambridge, UK)
2. How do L1 and Proficiency Level Influence L2 Written Production?, Yuichiro Kobayashi (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan), Mariko Abe (Chuo University, Japan)
3. Motivation and a Learner Corpus of Computer-mediated Communication, Tim Marchand and Sumie Akutsu (J. F. Oberlin University, Tokyo, Japan)
4. Investigating learning context in spoken learner corpora: Making use of learner profiles, Sandra Götz and Jobrayato Mukherjee (Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany)
Part II: Focus on Analysis of Learner Language
5. Disagreement in advanced learner speech, Dana Gablasova and Vaclav Brezina (Lancaster University, UK)
6. Self-repetitions in learners' spoken language: a corpus-based study, Marek Molenda, Piotr Pezik (University of Lodz, Poland) and John Osborne (Université de Savoie)
7. A Corpus-driven study of the learning of disciplinary genres, Ryan Millar & Silvia Pessoa (Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar)
8. Beyond frequencies: Investigating the semantic and stylistic features of phrasal verbs in a three-year longitudinal study corpus by Chinese university students, Meilin Chen (City University of Hong Kong)
9. Figurative language in intermediate-level second language writing, Justine Paris (Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris, France)
Index