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The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Corpora
is a state-of-the-art collection of cutting-edge scholarship at the
intersection of second language acquisition and learner corpus
research. It draws on data-driven, statistical analysis to outline
the background, methods, and outcomes of language learning, with a
range of global experts providing detailed guidelines and findings.
The volume is organized into five sections: Methodological and
theoretical contributions to the study of learner language using
corpora - setting the scene Key aspects in corpus design,
annotation, and analysis for SLA Corpora in SLA theory and practice
SLA constructs and corpora Future directions This is a
ground-breaking collection of essays offering incisive and
essential reading for anyone with an interest in second language
acquisition, learner corpus research, and applied linguistics.
This handbook is a comprehensive practical resource on corpus
linguistics. It features a range of basic and advanced approaches,
methods and techniques in corpus linguistics, from corpus
compilation principles to quantitative data analyses. The Handbook
is organized in six Parts. Parts I to III feature chapters that
discuss key issues and the know-how related to various topics
around corpus design, methods and corpus types. Parts IV-V aim to
offer a user-friendly introduction to the quantitative analysis of
corpus data: for each statistical technique discussed, chapters
provide a practical guide with R and come with supplementary online
material. Part VI focuses on how to write a corpus linguistic paper
and how to meta-analyze corpus linguistic research. The volume can
serve as a course book as well as for individual study. It will be
an essential reading for students of corpus linguistics as well as
experienced researchers who want to expand their knowledge of the
field.
Academic vocabulary is in fashion, as witnessed by the increasing
number of books published on the topic. In the first part of this
book , Magali Paquot scrutinizes the concept of 'academic
vocabulary' and proposes a corpus-driven procedure based on the
criteria of keyness, range and evenness of distribution to select
academic words that could be part of a common-core academic
vocabulary syllabus. In the second part, the author offers a
thorough analysis of academic vocabulary in the International
Corpus of Learner English (ICLE) and describes the factors that
account for learners' difficulties in academic writing. She then
focuses on the role of corpora, and more particularly, learner
corpora, in EAP material design. It is the first monograph in which
Granger's (1996) Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis is used to
compare 10 ICLE learner sub-corpora, in order to distinguish
between linguistic features that are shared by learners from a wide
range of mother tongue backgrounds and unique features that may be
transfer-related.
Academic vocabulary is in fashion, as witnessed by the increasing
number of books published on the topic. In the first part of this
book," "Magali Paquot scrutinizes the concept of 'academic
vocabulary' and proposes a corpus-driven procedure based on the
criteria of keyness, range and evenness of distribution to select
academic words that could be part of a common-core academic
vocabulary syllabus.
In the second part, the author offers a thorough analysis of
academic vocabulary in the International Corpus of Learner English
(ICLE) and describes the factors that account for learners'
difficulties in academic writing. She then focuses on the role of
corpora, and more particularly, learner corpora, in EAP material
design. It is the first monograph in which Granger's (1996)
Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis is used to compare 10 ICLE
learner sub-corpora, in order to distinguish between linguistic
features that are shared by learners from a wide range of mother
tongue backgrounds and unique features that may be
transfer-related.
Advances in Learner Corpus Research (LCR) and Second Language
Acquisition (SLA) have brought these two fast-moving fields
significantly closer in recent years. This volume brings together
contributions from internationally recognized experts in both LCR
and SLA to provide an innovative, cross-collaborative examination
of how both areas can provide rich insights for the other. Chapters
present recent advances in LCR and illustrate in a clear and
accessible style how these can be exploited for the study of a
broad range of key topics in SLA, such as complexity, tense and
aspect, cross-linguistic influence vs. universal processes,
phraseology and variability. It concludes with two commentary
chapters written by eminent scholars, one from the perspective of
SLA, the other from the perspective of LCR, allowing researchers
and students alike to reflect upon the mutually beneficial harmony
between the two fields and link up LCR and SLA research and theory.
Advances in Learner Corpus Research (LCR) and Second Language
Acquisition (SLA) have brought these two fast-moving fields
significantly closer in recent years. This volume brings together
contributions from internationally recognized experts in both LCR
and SLA to provide an innovative, cross-collaborative examination
of how both areas can provide rich insights for the other. Chapters
present recent advances in LCR and illustrate in a clear and
accessible style how these can be exploited for the study of a
broad range of key topics in SLA, such as complexity, tense and
aspect, cross-linguistic influence vs. universal processes,
phraseology and variability. It concludes with two commentary
chapters written by eminent scholars, one from the perspective of
SLA, the other from the perspective of LCR, allowing researchers
and students alike to reflect upon the mutually beneficial harmony
between the two fields and link up LCR and SLA research and theory.
This book brings together leading professional and academic
lexicographers to report on current developments in the deployment
of electronic means in the planning, writing, and dissemination of
dictionaries. Every major aspect of electronic lexicography is
covered by the book including dictionary types (general and
specialized dictionaries, monolingual and multilingual
dictionaries, collocation dictionaries, sign dictionaries,
collaborative dictionaries) in a range of formats (CD-ROM,
web-based, handheld), dictionary-writing systems, integration of
corpora, The book also addresses the implications of electronic
dictionary-making for lexicographic theory and illustrates how the
new developments are integrated into innovative dictionary projects
like Wiktionary. The perspective of the user is considered
throughout the book, including how electronic dictionaries take
account of user needs and whether and how users take advantages of
the new features afforded by the electronic medium. This
state-of-the-art account of developments in one of the most vibrant
areas of reference publishing and language research will appeal to
everyone concerned with current lexicography.
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