Self-determination theory (SDT) underpins research on learner empowerment, but it is rarely discussed in empowerment-related literature. In addition, a motivational measure stemming from SDT has received little visibility in communication research. To address these concerns, this study focuses on motivational theory and measurement in an attempt to tease out the relationship between motivation ...

In this paper we present a survey of some most significant spoken English learner corpora created up to date. Spoken learner corpora which include speech generated by learners are important in many areas of research and practice, in particular, for identifying typical pronunciation errors of learners of English as a second language (ESL), English as a foreign language (EFL), or English as a lin...

With the aim of storing learner corpora as well as information about the Basque language students who wrote the texts, two different but complementary databases were created: ERREUS and IRAKAZI. Linguistic and technical information (error description, error category, tools for detection/correction...) will be stored in ERREUS, while IRAKAZI will be filled in with psycholinguistic information (e...

In this paper we aim to describe the process by which our personalised web-based collaborative teaching/learning methodology (CECIP – Collaboration – Evaluation – Critical thinking – Individual assessment – learner Profile) evolved originating from Vygotsky’s theory and based on the (C) collaborative construction of student’s knowledge, (E) developing evaluation and assessment skills, (C) devel...

In this paper, we discuss how error annotation for learner corpora should be done by explaining the state of the art of error tagging schemes in learner corpus research. Several learner corpora, including the NICT JLE (Japanese Learner English) Corpus that we have compiled are annotated with error tagsets designed by categorizing “likely” errors implied from the existing canonical grammar rules...