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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"learner corpus"”.
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L1 Transfer in the L2 Acquisition and Processing of the English Genitive Alternation: Combining Learner Corpus and Psycholinguistic Methodologies
… structure to an equivalent structure in the learner’s L1 (surface overlap); (b) the derivational complexity of the target structure itself; and (c) the particular demands of the L2 task. This thesis investigates the influence of L1 transfer on L2 production, comprehension and processing among …
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Usage-based Analysis of Schematic and Multifunctional Verb Argument Constructions in Three Contrasting Corpora: A Native Chinese Corpus, a CFL Textbook Corpus and a Chinese Learner Corpus
The increasing use of learner corpora in second language acquisition (SLA) research has led to a growing body of evidence that supports the usage-based construction grammar approach to language learning. This approach suggests that language development is strongly influenced by statistical …
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Exploring the development of 'verb gram' sequences and grammar patterns in L2 writing: A case study of L1 Korean speakers
… acquisition is sensitive to frequency. Thus, learners can utilize and produce more schematic language structures as they gain more exposure to the language. This understanding has made a significant contribution to learner corpus research. To date, a plethora of studies has explored various …
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A corpus-driven error analysis of the oral and written production of Leaving Certificate Spanish learners
… level education – this presents a massive, raw corpus of data with the potential to yield invaluable insight into the phenomena of learner interlanguage. With samples of official LC Spanish examination data, this project has compiled a digitised corpus of learner Spanish comprised of the written …
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Individual variation and the role of L1 in the L2 development of English grammatical morphemes: insights from learner corpora
… dissertation is to illustrate the relevance of learner corpus research to the field of second language acquisition (SLA). The possibility that learner corpora can be useful in mainstream SLA research has a significant implication given that they have not been systematically explored in relation …
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A corpus-based lexical and grammatical error identification: L2 learners academic writing
… been an easy task to many second language (L2) learners. Many of them perform poorly in their English academic writing where numerous lexical and grammatical errors are found in their report. Therefore, this thesis investigates the difficulties faced by UTHM learners involved in academic writing …
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A computer-aided error analysis of Saudi students’ written English and an evaluation of the efficacy of using the data- driven learning approach to teach collocations and lexical phrases
The thesis reports on three corpus-based studies in a Saudi university context. The first study is a computer-aided error analysis (CEA) of a corpus of Saudi English majors’ writing. The second and third studies employ the DDL approach to teach collocations and lexical phrases. The errors in the …
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Chinese rhythm in second language acquisition
… whether Chinese second language (L2) learners and heritage learners can acquire such prosodic constraints. Two broad research questions are asked: (1) Can adult L2 learners of Chinese acquire these prosodic constraints? (2) Do heritage speakers have selective advantages over L2 …
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An examination of successful language use at B1, B2 and C1 level in UCLanESB speaking tests in accordance with the Common European Framework of References for Languages
… speaker as a model and measure for success, learner language had previously been seen as inferior or deviant from the native speaker target and norm. However, with the arrival of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages [CEFR] (CoE, 2001), a shift in emphasis saw learner …
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Automatic syntactic analysis of learner English
… extracting useful information from large-scale learner data for linguistic research and natural language processing (NLP). Currently, researchers use standard POS taggers and parsers developed on native language to analyze learner language. Investigation of how such systems perform on learner …
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Definite and Indefinite Articles in Learner English: Identifying the Learning Problem and Addressing It with Processing Instruction Intervention
… notoriously difficult to acquire, especially for learners with article-less, [-art], L1s. The purpose of this dissertation is to identify the potential causes of learner difficulty with articles and to suggest an effective teaching intervention. To identify the learner problem, I conducted a …
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The Potential Influence of Crosslinguistic Similarity on Lexical Transfer: Examining Vocabulary Use in L2 English
Learners’ native language (L1) influences their knowledge and use of second language (L2) vocabulary, a phenomenon known as lexical transfer. Past research on this shows that learners’ L1 influences their L2 word choices, and that lexical similarity—which relates to cognancy—between L1 words and …