Book contents
- Learner Corpus Research Meets Second Language Acquisition
- The Cambridge Applied Linguistics Series
- Learner Corpus Research Meets Second Language Acquisition
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Learner Corpus Research and Second Language Acquisition: an attempt at bridging the gap
- Article Use in Russian and Spanish Learner Writing at CEFR B1 and B2 Levels: Effects of Proficiency, Native Language, and Specificity
- L1 Influence vs. Universal Mechanisms: An SLA-Driven Corpus Study on Temporal Expression
- The Interplay between Universal Processes and Cross-Linguistic Influence in the Light of Learner Corpus Data: Examining Shared Features of Non-native Englishes
- Exploring Multi-Word Combinations as Measures of Linguistic Accuracy in Second Language Writing
- Using Syntactic Co-occurrences to Trace Phraseological Complexity Development in Learner Writing: Verb + Object Structures in LONGDALE
- Understanding the Long-Term Evolution of L2 Lexical Diversity: The Contribution of a Longitudinal Learner Corpus
- L2 Developmental Measures from a Dynamic Perspective
- Exploring Individual Variation in Learner Corpus Research: Methodological Suggestions
- Building an Oral and Written Learner Corpus of a School Programme: Methodological Issues
- Commentary: Have Learner Corpus Research and Second Language Acquisition Finally Met?
- Commentary: An SLA Perspective on Learner Corpus Research
- Index
- References
Commentary: Have Learner Corpus Research and Second Language Acquisition Finally Met?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 December 2020
Book contents
- Learner Corpus Research Meets Second Language Acquisition
- The Cambridge Applied Linguistics Series
- Learner Corpus Research Meets Second Language Acquisition
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Learner Corpus Research and Second Language Acquisition: an attempt at bridging the gap
- Article Use in Russian and Spanish Learner Writing at CEFR B1 and B2 Levels: Effects of Proficiency, Native Language, and Specificity
- L1 Influence vs. Universal Mechanisms: An SLA-Driven Corpus Study on Temporal Expression
- The Interplay between Universal Processes and Cross-Linguistic Influence in the Light of Learner Corpus Data: Examining Shared Features of Non-native Englishes
- Exploring Multi-Word Combinations as Measures of Linguistic Accuracy in Second Language Writing
- Using Syntactic Co-occurrences to Trace Phraseological Complexity Development in Learner Writing: Verb + Object Structures in LONGDALE
- Understanding the Long-Term Evolution of L2 Lexical Diversity: The Contribution of a Longitudinal Learner Corpus
- L2 Developmental Measures from a Dynamic Perspective
- Exploring Individual Variation in Learner Corpus Research: Methodological Suggestions
- Building an Oral and Written Learner Corpus of a School Programme: Methodological Issues
- Commentary: Have Learner Corpus Research and Second Language Acquisition Finally Met?
- Commentary: An SLA Perspective on Learner Corpus Research
- Index
- References
Summary
Although learner corpus research (LCR) and second language acquisition (SLA) studies both partake of the general field of L2 studies, it must be acknowledged that they are still essentially two different worlds. The distance between the two fields was noted as early as 1999 by Hilde Hasselgård in her review of the first volume on LCR (Granger 1998): ‘A question that remains unanswered is whether corpus linguistics and SLA have really met in learner corpus research. While learner language corpus research does not seem to be very controversial in relation to traditional corpus linguistics, some potential conflicts are not resolved, nor commented on by anyone from “the other side”’ (Hasselgård 1999, 152). This echoed Geoffrey Leech’s rather bleak observation in his preface to the volume: ‘If … we characterise the theme of this book as ‘SLA meets corpus linguistics’, this is not likely to be a meeting of unalloyed joy and good will. Rather, it may well be an encounter marked by some suspicion and misunderstanding’ (Leech 1998, xvi).
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Learner Corpus Research Meets Second Language Acquisition , pp. 243 - 257Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
References
Bestgen, Y. & Granger, S. (2014). Quantifying the development of phraseological competence in L2 English writing. Journal of Second Language Writing 26, 28–41.Google Scholar
Bley-Vroman, R. (1983). The comparative fallacy in interlanguage studies: The case of systematicity. Language Learning 33(1), 1–17.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Doughty, C. J. & Long, M. H. (2003). The scope of inquiry and goals of SLA. In Doughty, C. J. & Long, M. H. (eds.), The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, 3–16. Malden: Blackwell.Google Scholar
Dulay, H. C. & Burt, M. K. (1974). Natural sequences in child second language acquisition. Language Learning 24(1), 37–53.Google Scholar
Ellis, N. & Wulff, S. (2015). Usage-based approaches to SLA. In VanPatten, B. & Williams, J. (eds.), Theories in Second Language Acquisition: An Introduction, 75–93. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.Google Scholar
Gass, S. (2013). Second Language Acquisition. An Introductory Course (with J. Behney & L. Plonsky). New York, NY & London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Gass, S. & Selinker, L. (2001). Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course (Second Edition). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.Google Scholar
Gilquin, G., De Cock, S., & Granger, S. (2010). Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage. Handbook and CD-ROM. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain.Google Scholar
Gilquin, G. & Gries, S. (2009). Corpora and experimental methods: A state-of-the-art review. In Gilquin, G. (ed.), Corpora and Experimental Methods. Special Issue of Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 5(1), 1–26.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Granger, S. (1993). The International Corpus of Learner English. In Aarts, J., de Haan, P., & Oostdijk, N. (eds.), English Language Corpora: Design, Analysis and Exploitation, 57–69. Amsterdam & Atlanta, GA: Rodopi.Google Scholar
Granger, S. (1996). From CA to CIA and back: An integrated contrastive approach to computerized bilingual and learner corpora. In Aijmer, K., Altenberg, B., & Johansson, M. (eds.), Languages in Contrast: Text-Based Cross-Linguistic Studies, 37–51. Lund: Lund University Press.Google Scholar
Granger, S. (ed.) (1998). Learner English on Computer. London & New York, NY: Addison Wesley Longman.Google Scholar
Granger, S. (2015). Contrastive interlanguage analysis: A reappraisal. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 1(1), 7–24.Google Scholar
Granger, S., Dagneaux, E., Meunier, F., & Paquot, M. (2009). The International Corpus of Learner English, Version 2. Handbook and CD-ROM. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain.Google Scholar
Hasselgård, H. (1999). Review of Granger (ed.) Learner English on Computer. ICAME Journal 23, 148–152.Google Scholar
Housen, A. (2002). A corpus-based study of the L2-acquisition of the English verb system. In Granger, S., Hung, J., & Petch-Tyson, S. (eds.), Computer Learner Corpora, Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching, 77–116. Amsterdam & Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.Google Scholar
Jarvis, S. (2000). Methodological rigor in the study of transfer: Identifying L1 influence in the interlanguage lexicon. Language Learning 50(2), 245–309.Google Scholar
Lado, R. (1957). Linguistics across Cultures. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.Google Scholar
Larsen-Freeman, D. (2014). Another step to be taken: Rethinking the end point of the interlanguage continuum. In Han, Z. & Tarone, E. (eds.), Interlanguage: Forty Years Later, 203–220. Amsterdam & Philadelphia, PA: Benjamins.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Leech, G. (1998). Preface: Learner corpora: What they are and what can be done with them. In Granger, S. (ed.), Learner English on Computer, xiv–xx. London & New York, NY: Addison Wesley Longman.Google Scholar
Lüdeling, A., Doolittle, S., Hirschmann, H., Schmidt, K., & Walter, M. (2008). Das Lernerkorpus Falko. Deutsch als Fremdsprache 2, 67–73.Google Scholar
Manchón, R. M. & Tardy, C. (2012). Preface: Exploring L2 writing–SLA interfaces. Journal of Second Language Writing 21(4), v.Google Scholar
Myles, F. (2005). Review article: Interlanguage corpora and second language acquisition research. Second Language Research 21(4), 373–391.Google Scholar
Myles, F. (2015). Second language acquisition theory and learner corpus research. In Granger, S., Gilquin, G., & Meunier, F. (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research, 309–332. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Nicholls, D. (2003). The Cambridge learner corpus: Error coding and analysis for lexicography and ELT. In Archer, D., Rayson, P., Wilson, A., & McEnery, T. (eds.), Proceedings of the 2003 Corpus Linguistics Conference, 572–581. Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language Technical Papers, University of Lancaster.Google Scholar
Odlin, T. (1989). Language Transfer: Cross-Linguistic Influence in Language Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Ortega, L. (2012). Epilogue: Exploring L2 writing–SLA interfaces. Journal of Second Language Writing 21(4), 404–415.Google Scholar
Ortega, L. & Byrnes, H. (2008). The Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2 Capacities. New York, NY & London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Selinker, L. (1972). Interlanguage. IRAL – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 10(1–4), 209–232.Google Scholar
Sinclair, J. (1995). Corpus typology: A framework for classification. In Melchers, G. & Warren, B. (eds.), Studies in Anglistics, 17–33. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International.Google Scholar
Sinclair, J. (1996). EAGLES: Preliminary recommendations on corpus typology, retrieved from www.ilc.cnr.it/EAGLES/corpustyp/corpustyp.html (accessed June 13, 2020).Google Scholar
Tenfjord, K., Meurer, P., & Hofland, K. (2006). The ASK corpus: A language learner corpus of Norwegian as a second language. In Proceedings of the 5th Edition of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), Genoa (Italy), 22–28 May 2006, 1821–1824. Retrieved from www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/ (accessed June 13, 2020).Google Scholar