Abstract
<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>
Highlights
With the development of learner corpora and multilingual corpora since the 1990s, there has been a revival of corpus linguistics, especially its application to second language research by incorporating the use of learner corpora, see for instance, Keck (2004), Pravec (2002), Myles (2005)
Based on the above components, the present paper first introduces learner corpora, 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
A series of learner corpora have been released all around the world and made use of for research, for instance, International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE) which contains argumentative essays written by higher intermediate to advanced learners of English from various mother tongue backgrounds; Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI), a spoken counterpart to ICLE containing oral data produced by advanced learners of English from several mother tongue backgrounds; Chinese Learner English Corpus (CLEC), a collection of English essays written by Chinese students ranging from senior middle school to university levels; Cambridge Learner Corpus consisting of exam scripts written by students taking Cambridge ESOL exams around the world, and many others
Summary
With the development of learner corpora and multilingual corpora since the 1990s, there has been a revival of corpus linguistics, especially its application to second language research by incorporating the use of learner corpora, see for instance, Keck (2004), Pravec (2002), Myles (2005). Based on the above components, in the present paper, we will look at 1) the introduction of learner corpora, 2) the application of corpus linguistics to SLA by means of contrastive interlanguage analysis, and 3) the relationship between learner corpora and foreign language teaching
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