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Learner Corpus Research and Second Language Acquisition: an attempt at bridging the gap

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 December 2020

By
Bert Le Bruyn and
Magali Paquot
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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Learner corpora are traditionally defined as ‘systematic collections of authentic, continuous and contextualized language use (spoken or written) by L2 learners stored in electronic format’ (Callies & Paquot 2015). With this characterization, it appears very clearly that learner corpus researchers have always been interested in exploring the output of the more open-ended types of contextualized production tasks assigned to L2 learners (e.g. Granger 2008; Tracy-Ventura & Myles 2015). The term ‘learners’ here refers to Foreign and/or Second Language learners rather than to learners acquiring their native language (L1).

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Learner Corpus Research Meets Second Language Acquisition , pp. 1 - 9
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Print publication year: 2021

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