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Commentary: An SLA Perspective on Learner Corpus Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 December 2020

By
Florence Myles
Edited by
Bert Le Bruyn  and
Magali Paquot
Bert Le Bruyn
Affiliation:
UIL-OTS, Utrecht University
Magali Paquot
Affiliation:
FNRS – Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, UCLouvain
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Summary

There have been repeated calls over the years for greater interaction between Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research and Learner Corpus Research (LCR), including by myself and the editors of this volume, as well as many others (e.g. Granger et al. 2015; Lozano & Díaz-Negrillo 2019; Lozano & Mendikoetxea 2010; McEnery et al. 2019). In a range of publications (Myles 2005, 2007, 2008, 2015; Myles & Mitchell 2004), I have outlined, from an SLA perspective, what I perceive to be the gaps to be bridged in order for the two fields to be engaged in useful collaboration. My task with this commentary is to assess how far these gaps have narrowed, on the basis of the chapters in this volume.

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Learner Corpus Research Meets Second Language Acquisition , pp. 258 - 273
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