32.1278, Books: Understanding Development and Proficiency in Writing: Durrant, Brenchley, McCallum

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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 07:45:24
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Understanding Development and Proficiency in Writing: Durrant, Brenchley, McCallum

 


Title: Understanding Development and Proficiency in Writing 
Subtitle: Quantitative Corpus Linguistic Approaches 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/applied-linguistics-and-second-language-acquisition/understanding-development-and-proficiency-writing-quantitative-corpus-linguistic-approaches?format=HB 


Author: Philip Durrant
Author: Mark Brenchley
Author: Lee McCallum

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108477628 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108477628 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 84.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108477628 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.19
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108725804 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 29.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108725804 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108725804 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 26.83


Abstract:

Quantitative corpus research on written language development has expanded
rapidly in recent years, assisted by the ever-increasing power and
accessibility of software capable of reliably analysing huge collections of
learner writing. For this work to reach its full potential, it is important
that researchers have a strong understanding of its methodological foundations
and of the existing empirical evidence base on which it can build. This book
provides the most comprehensive discussion to date of research in this area.
Covering both first and second language learning contexts, it sets out a
coherent theoretical framework and systematically reviews studies published
over the last seventy years in order to establish what such research has
taught us about written language development, what it hasn't taught us, and
what we should do next. Timely and original, this is an essential reference
work for academic researchers and students of first and second language
writing.
 



1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical and Methodological Foundations; 3. Development
in Syntax; 4. Development in Vocabulary; 5. Development in Formulaic Language;
6. Development in Cohesion; 7. Conclusions; References; Index.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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