Investigating language acquisition by non-native learners helps to understand important linguistic issues and develop teaching methods, better suited both to the specific target language and to the learner. These tasks can now be based on empirical evidence from learner corpora. A learner corpus consists of language produced by language learners, typically learners of a second or foreign langua...

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...

Hedges, as tools to express tentativeness and doubt, have been studied in plenty of research papers in the Iranian EFL research setting. However, their use in a learner corpus, portraying Iranian learner English, is in need of more research attention. With this end in view, this study aimed at investigating how Iranian EFL learners who have majored in English-related fields in Iran deployed hed...

In the development of corpus linguistics, the creation of corpora has had a critical role in corpus-based studies. The majority of created corpora have been associated with English and native languages, while other languages and types of corpora have received relatively less attention. Because an increasing number of corpora have been constructed, and each corpus is constructed for a definite p...