[Corpora-List] Lists/distributions of common learner's errors in written English

[Maarten Jansonius]

Hello David,

you may still want to consider contacting Sylviane Granger's research group
behind the ICLE, because one of the main focus points of their current
research (not yet added to the ICLE cd-rom) IS in fact on collocations
(ranging from idioms to typical verb-noun collocations).
Here's their website:
http://www.fltr.ucl.ac.be/fltr/germ/etan/cecl/cecl.html

hope this helps,
Maarten


At 00:50 5-10-2004, David Parkinson wrote:
>Hello all:
>
>I wonder if anyone out there can point me in the direction of lists or
>corpora of learner errors in written L2 English, either in electronic
>format or hard copy. I am aware of the existence of the ICLE corpus, but
>am assuming that more sources of such information might exist. It would
>be ideal to find a list/corpus extensive enough to have credible
>frequencies associated with the observed errors (or error categories),
>but even typical examples would be a start. I'm most interested in
>problems with lexical selectional (including things like article choice
>& bound preposition errors) and collocation infelicities, as opposed to
>cohesion and other text-level problems.
>
>I will happily provide a summary of responses if people reply directly
>to me.
>
>Many thanks in advance.
>
>David Parkinson
>Natural Language Group
>Microsoft Corporation