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<b>BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT<br><br>
</b>Twenty Years of Learner Corpus Research. Looking Back, Moving Ahead.
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Proceedings of the First Learner Corpus Research Conference (LCR
2011)<br><br>
edited by Sylviane Granger, Gaëtanelle Gilquin & Fanny Meunier
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Corpora and Language in Use. Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses universitaires de
Louvain, 2013, 514 pages. <br><br>
Learner corpus research is a young but vibrant new brand of research
which stands at a crossroads between corpus linguistics, second language
acquisition and foreign language teaching. Its origins go back to the
late 1980s when academics and publishers started collecting data from
foreign/second language learners with a view to advancing our
understanding of the mechanisms of second language acquisition and/or
developing pedagogical tools and methods that more accurately target the
needs of language learners. At first limited to English as a Foreign
Language, learner corpus research has begun to spread to a wide range of
languages and as a result, the community group of learner corpus
researchers is rapidly growing and diversifying. The First Learner Corpus
Research Conference organized by the Centre for English Corpus
Linguistics of the Université catholique de Louvain in September 2011
aimed to take stock of the advances made in the field in its over twenty
years of existence. The resulting proceedings volume covers issues of
learner corpus design, collection and annotation and contains reports on
various aspects of (written and spoken) learner interlanguage –
pronunciation, prosody, grammar, lexis, phraseology and discourse – as
well as design of learner-corpus-informed tools. The volume also explores
some of the ways in which learner corpus research could develop in the
near future. <br><br>
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Professor Sylviane Granger<br>
Director of the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics<br>
Université catholique de Louvain<br>
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