Review of Götz & Mukherjee (2019): Learner Corpora and Language Teaching

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-300
Author(s):  
Tom Rankin
Keyword(s):  
Language Teaching ◽  
Learner Corpora

scholarly journals A Corpus of Writing, Pronunciation, Reading, and Listening by Learners of English as a Foreign Language

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsunori Kotani ◽  
Takehiko Yoshimi ◽  
Hiroaki Nanjo ◽  
Hitoshi Isahara
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Linguistic Data ◽  
Learner Corpus ◽  
Learner Corpora

<p>In order to develop effective teaching methods and computer-assisted language teaching systems for learners of English as a foreign language who need to study the basic linguistic competences for writing, pronunciation, reading, and listening, it is necessary to first investigate which vocabulary and grammar they have or have not yet learned. Identifying such vocabulary and grammar requires a learner corpus for analyzing the accuracy and fluency of learners’ linguistic competences. However, it is difficult to use previous learner corpora for this purpose because they have not compiled all the types of linguistic data that we need. Therefore, this study aimed to solve this problem by designing and developing a new learner corpus that compiles linguistic data regarding the accuracy and fluency of the four basic linguistic competences of writing, pronunciation, reading, and listening. The reliability and validity of the learner corpus were partially confirmed, and practical application of the learner corpus is reported here as case studies.</p>

scholarly journals The Role of Native and Learner Corpora in Vocabulary Test Design

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Eman Saleh Akeel
Keyword(s):  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Testing ◽  
Test Design ◽  
Vocabulary Test ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
Learner Corpora ◽  
Corpus Data

<p>The growing field of corpus linguistics has been engaged heavily in language pedagogy during the last two decades. This has encouraged researchers to look for more applications that corpora have on language teaching and learning and led to the emersion of using corpora in language testing. The aim of this article is to provide an overview of using corpus data for the purpose of vocabulary test designing. It presents some native and learner corpora which are available for item writers to use. It covers the benefits and limitations of using corpora in language testing and argues for the importance and usefulness of using native as well as learner corpora as tools for designing a vocabulary test. The article aims to illustrate how both native and learner corpora can be used in language testing in general and in the development of vocabulary tests in particular.</p>

scholarly journals Application of Learner Corpora to Second Language Learning and Teaching: An Overview

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Xu
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Second Language Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Learner Corpus ◽  
Learner Corpora

<p>The paper gives an overview of learner corpora and their application to second language learning and teaching. It is proposed that there are four core components in learner corpus research, namely, corpus linguistics expertise, a good background in linguistic theory, knowledge of SLA theory, and a good understanding of foreign language teaching issues (Granger, 2009). Based on the above components, the present paper first introduces learner corpora, then reviews literature concerning the application of corpus linguistics to SLA by means of contrastive interlanguage analysis, and at last discusses the relationship between learner corpora and foreign language teaching.</p>

Marginal prepositions in learner English

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 412-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Rankin ◽  
Barbara Schiftner
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Specific Class ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
Learner Corpus ◽  
Learner Corpora ◽  
Corpus Data

This paper illustrates the use of learner corpus data to inform language teaching. A comparative interlanguage analysis of a specific class of complex and marginal prepositions in a range of L1 German learner corpora is presented. The comparison shows that, in native English, prepositions in the semantic field of “reference” and “aboutness” are used in distinct structural and collocational environments, while the learner data shows a greater degree of interchangeability in use. Since the distribution of these prepositions in native English is more differentiated than might be suggested by the standard pedagogical reference works, implications for English language teaching are suggested.

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