Abstract
This article presents CORYL (CORpus of Young Learner language), and demonstrates how using the corpus can help to reveal or shed further light on many phenomena which are manifested in the written English language of Norwegian school pupils. The paper begins by introducing CORYL, then focuses on learner language and the role of corpora in the study of this. Separate sections follow, devoted to what we term Computer-aided error analysis and Interlanguage analysis (not involving errors). Within these sections, extracts and other findings from CORYL-searching are presented to illustrate what we believe CORYL is able to indicate about the language of these learners.
Highlights
This article presents coryl (CORpus of Young Learner language), and demonstrates how the corpus can help reveal or shed further light on many phenomena which are manifested in the written English language of Norwegian school pupils
At the very top of the list, with twice the frequency of the word that was in second-place, we find the word ‘the’
This article has hopefully demonstrated that the coryl corpus has the potential to add significantly to our knowledge of the development of the English of young learners in Norway
Summary
This article presents coryl (CORpus of Young Learner language), and demonstrates how the corpus can help reveal or shed further light on many phenomena which are manifested in the written English language of Norwegian school pupils. In the case of coryl, while it may be suspected that Norwegian learners underuse a certain word or structure, the absence of a parallel native speaker corpus for comparison makes this difficult to establish; experimental study with pupils may be the best way to find evidence of over- and underuse. It is, possible to undertake a comparison between subgroups of coryl, in order to find indications that this may be happening. With the exception of because, it can be seen that those used by the older pupils, though admittedly in small in number, are virtually never used by the 7 th graders
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