The topic of the present study is adverb-adjective combinations in narrative writing by lower secondary school pupils Norway and UK. investigation based on subsets TRAWL (Tracking Written Learner Language) GiG (Growth Grammar) corpora thus compares English as a second language with first-language usage (EL2 EL1). A number differences were identified between two writer groups. While construction...

This paper considers learner misconceptions information which is presented to the learner in an open learner model. We suggest that specific information about misconceptions may be of benefit to the learner, to help them reflect on their knowledge and understanding. We investigate acceptance of their misconceptions presented as animations and step-by-step text descriptions by two groups of user...

This longitudinal study investigated the impact of different Frequency Patterns (FP) on the syntactic production of a six-year-old EFL learner in a home context. Target syntactic constructions were presented using games and plays and were traced for their occurrence patterns in input and output. Following each instruction period, the constructions were measured through immediate and delayed ora...

The aim of this article is twofold: first, to briefly assess the influence that corpus linguistic research has had on second/foreign language learning so far, and second, to suggest future directions for a more coherent and well thought out integration of corpora in instructed settings. In section 1, the influence of native and learner corpus research on second/foreign language learning will be...

Child-directed speech has a distinctive structure and may have facilitatory effects on children’s language learning. We consider these facilitatory effects from the perspective of Marr’s levels of analysis: could they arise at the computational level or must they be located at at the algorithmic or implementation levels? To determine if the effects could be due to computational level benefits, ...

Abstract This study aims to identify patterns of verb conjugation errors that learners Korean manifest and the factors influence these through an analysis error-annotated learner corpus. For this purpose, a paradigmatic relations-based description language acquisition was proposed. The predictability each class estimated by way entropy, tool for measuring predictability. Using entropy allowed u...

the present study aimed to analyze reprint request e-mail messages written by postgraduates (ma students) of two fields of study, namely physics and efl, to realize the differences and similarities between the two email types. to investigate the purpose of the study, a sample of 100 e-mail messages, 50 physics and 50 efl, were analyzed according to swales’ (1990) model for reprint requests and ...

Abstract This paper examines how translation trainees deal with verb-noun terminological collocations when translating a legal text into their L2. The learner data is juxtaposed professional translations of the same and comparable non-translated documents. results indicate that large proportion renditions attested in reference corpora. There also relatively high convergence between learners’ ex...