Abstract This study aims to demonstrate the need for learner-corpus-informed applications and proposes methods of application that promote proper use Korean topic nominative markers. extracted 3004 pieces error from error-annotated corpus Learners’ Corpus, largest learner date. A detailed examination above data was conducted subdivide types substitution errors related markers, analyze rate acco...

English. Native Language Identification (NLI) is the task of recognizing an author’s native language from text in another language. In this paper, we consider three English learner corpora and one new, presumably more difficult, scientific corpus. We find that the scientific corpus is only about as hard to model as a less-controlled learner corpus, but cannot profit as much from corpus combinat...

Collocations, i.e., recurrent word combinations such as take advantage (of), strong tea, and deeply absorbed, are receiving increasing attention in SLA research because of their importance to “native-like” production of language. Previous studies suggest that collocations pose a serious challenge to language learners and that learners’ L1 plays a crucial role in this respect. My paper aims to s...

The IFCASL corpus is a French-German bilingual phonetic learner corpus designed, recorded and annotated in a project on individualized feedback in computer-assisted spoken language learning. The motivation for setting up this corpus was that there is no phonetically annotated and segmented corpus for this language pair of comparable of size and coverage. In contrast to most learner corpora, the...

The Process Corpus of English in Education (PROCEED) is a learner corpus which, addition to written texts, consists data that make the writing process visible form keystroke log files and screencast videos. It comes with rich metadata about each learner, among which indices exposure target language cognitive measures such as working memory or fluid intelligence. also includes an L1 component ma...

This corpus-based study compares the use of the alternating ditransitive verb TELL by native speakers and Chinese learners of English. The corpora used are the written sub-corpus of ICE-GB (the British component of International Corpus of English) and CLEC (the Chinese Learner English Corpus). CLEC consists of both lowand high-proficiency L2 learners’ writing. By incorporating corpus contrastiv...

This paper surveys a variety of methodological problems in current quantitative corpus linguistics. Some problems discussed are from corpus linguistics in general, such as the impact that dispersion, type frequencies/ entropies, and directionality (should) have on the computation of association measures as well as the impact that neglecting the sampling structure of a corpus can have on a stati...

Abstract English Profile (EP) is an ongoing empirical exploration of learner initiated by Cambridge University Press and English, among others. EP aims to create a set empirically-based descriptions language competencies for English. ‘Reference Level Descriptors’ already exist as part the Common European Framework Reference (CEFR) but are intuitively derived not designed one specific language. ...

A learner's corpus is a body of writing for use by a student whose first language is not (in this case) English to improve his/her use of (in this case) academic scientific terminology. In this case study, a learner's corpus was developed for a first-year mathematics module for students in the biological sciences. Lecturers struggle with big classes and a fairly high failure rate which they hav...