Towards a Corpus-based Approach to Modelling Language Production of Foreign Language Learners in Communicative Contexts

This paper discusses linguistic annotation issues, essential to a corpus-based approach to modelling the language use of foreign language learners in various contexts. We focus on learners of English and describe the corpora we use as well as the linguistic approach underlying their development. We present a scheme for describing grammatical choices and meaning components expressed in texts produced by learners. Our goal is to model the associations of corpus-attested linguistic patterns with their contexts, at different levels of language proficiency.