Studies in Learner Corpus Linguistics

Contents: Marcus Callies: Using Learner Corpora in Language Testing and Assessment: Current Practice and Future Challenges - María Belén Díez-Bedmar: Dealing with Errors in Learner Corpora to Describe, Teach and Assess EFL Writing: Focus on Article Use - Mick O'Donnell: Using Learner Corpora to Order Linguistic Structures in Terms of Apparent Difficulty - Marta Guarda: Focus on Form in Computer-Mediated Communication: Using Written Learner Data to Foster Language and Pragmatic Skills in Communicative Contexts - Tim Marchand/Sumie Akutsu: The Compilation and Use of a CMC Learner Corpus for Japanese University Students - Fanny Meunier: Introduction to the LONGDALE Project - Pieter de Haan: Nouns and Noun Phrases in Advanced Dutch EFL Writing: From Quantitative to Qualitative Longitudinal Data Analysis - Caroline Gerckens/Anne Gans: I didn't really *understood what it was about, but it really *made fun: A Longitudinal Corpus-based Study of Tense/Aspect and High-frequency Verbs in Learner English - Pascale Goutéraux: Assessing Advanced EFL Students' Proficiency at Producing Affect-laden Discourse - Erik Castello: Towards a Longitudinal Study of Metadiscourse in EFL Academic Writing: Focus on Italian Learners' Use of it-extraposition - Katherine Ackerley: Short-term Effects of Students' Exploration of Corpora: A Longitudinal Study of Pre- and Post-modification of Noun Phrases in Learner English - Francesca Coccetta/Silvia Samiolo: Analysing the Language of Interpersonal Relations in Corpora of Elicited Learner and Native Interactions in English - Conor Geiselbrechtinger: From Learner to Expert: Using a Corpus to Analyse the Use of Must by German Advanced Students of English - Ventura Salazar-García/Abbas Farhan Eliwey: Spanish Copulas and the Interlanguage of Iraqi University Students - Stefania Spina: Phraseology in Academic L2 Discourse: The Use of Multi-words Units in a CMC University Context - Andy Cresswell: Representing Learner English in a Specialized Corpus: Genre and Proficiency Level in the Advanced Learner Corpus of Argumentative Student Essays (ALCASE) - Luisa Bozzo: Connecting Data Elicitation and Pedagogical Practice in Learner Corpus Design: The Case of TILCE - the Turin Italian Learner Corpus of English - Lionel Nicolas/Egon Stemle/Aivars Glaznieks/Andrea Abel: A Generic Data Workflow for Building Annotated Text Corpora.