Learner Corpus Research New Perspectives and Applications
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Vaclav Brezina is a Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University.
Lynne Flowerdew is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London.
Overall, the richness of the study designs and the L2 teaching implications drawn from robust findings clearly make Learning Corpus Research: New Perspectives and Applications a great candidate for reading in graduate programs.
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
This volume is an invaluable resource to a wide range of readers, including applied linguists and teachers, who are interested in the learner language and corpus-based research. Researchers can use this book to find exemplary studies with great reporting practices. Especially appreciating readers would be practitioners who have been longing for empirical evidence as to whether their instinct about learner language can be empirically studied, and if so what they could do with those inter-language patterns.
Linguist List
Contains much innovative research and makes a substantial contribution to the field, especially with regard to methodology.
Journal of English for Academic Purposes
The volume under review presents interesting findings on well-known learner corpora but also showcases exciting new data sets and methods as well as critical discussions on important methodological issues ... the volume will no doubt be of interest to any researcher in the field of learner language and a must-read for anyone involved in LCR.
International Journal of Learner Corpus Research
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.
Preface, Tony McEnery
Introduction, Vaclav Brezina and Lynne Flowerdew
Part I: Task and Learner Variables
1. The effect of task and topic on opportunity of use in learner corpora, Andrew Caines and Paula Buttery (University of Cambridge, UK)
2. Phrasal verbs in spoken L2 English: The effect of L2 proficiency and L1 background, Irene Marin Cervantes and Dana Gablasova (Lancaster University, UK)
3. Investigating the effect of the study abroad variable on learner output: A pseudo-longitudinal study on spoken German learner English, Sandra Götz and Jobrayato Mukherjee (Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany)
Part II: Analysis of Learner Language
4. Disagreement in advanced learner speech, Dana Gablasova and Vaclav Brezina (Lancaster University, UK)
5. Self-repetitions in learners’ spoken language: a corpus-based study, Marek Molenda, Piotr Pezik (University of Lodz, Poland) and John Osborne (Université de Savoie)
6. A Corpus-driven study of the learning of disciplinary genres, Ryan Miller (Kent State University) and Silvia Pessoa (Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar)
7. 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)
8. Figurative language in intermediate-level second language writing, Justine Paris (Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris, France)
Index
Language is ubiquitous. As never before, it is now commonly understood how crucial language is for human interaction, for negotiating and shaping our material and ideational reality. In the digital age, the speed, scale and diversity of forms of communication and language use have grown rapidly. The increasing amount of language data that influences attitudes, decision-making and relationships highlights how the methodology of corpus linguistics together with the explanatory power of discourse analysis are indispensable for deciphering the world around us.
Situated at the interface of corpus linguistics and discourse studies, the Corpus and Discourse series publishes innovative research where humanities and social sciences come together to understand the relationship between discourse and society in an increasingly digital world.
Series Editors: Michaela Mahlberg (University of Birmingham, UK) and Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University, UK)
Consulting Editor: Wolfgang Teubert (University of Birmingham, UK)
Editorial Board
Paul Baker, Lancaster University, UK
Frantisek Cermák, Charles University, Prague
Susan Conrad, Portland State University, USA
Matteo Fuoli, University of Birmingham, UK
Maristella Gatto, University of Bari, Italy
Dominique Maingueneau, Université de Paris XII, France
Christian Mair, University of Freiburg, Germany
Alan Partington, University of Bologna, Italy
Charlotte Taylor, University of Sussex, UK
Elena Tognini-Bonelli, University of Siena, Italy
Ruth Wodak, Lancaster University, UK
Ruihua Zhang, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, China
Feng Zhiwei, Institute of Applied Linguistics, Beijing, China
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Vaclav Brezina is a Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University.
Lynne Flowerdew is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London.