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Commentary: Have Learner Corpus Research and Second Language Acquisition Finally Met?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 December 2020

By
Sylviane Granger
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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Although learner corpus research (LCR) and second language acquisition (SLA) studies both partake of the general field of L2 studies, it must be acknowledged that they are still essentially two different worlds. The distance between the two fields was noted as early as 1999 by Hilde Hasselgård in her review of the first volume on LCR (Granger 1998): ‘A question that remains unanswered is whether corpus linguistics and SLA have really met in learner corpus research. While learner language corpus research does not seem to be very controversial in relation to traditional corpus linguistics, some potential conflicts are not resolved, nor commented on by anyone from “the other side”’ (Hasselgård 1999, 152). This echoed Geoffrey Leech’s rather bleak observation in his preface to the volume: ‘If … we characterise the theme of this book as ‘SLA meets corpus linguistics’, this is not likely to be a meeting of unalloyed joy and good will. Rather, it may well be an encounter marked by some suspicion and misunderstanding’ (Leech 1998, xvi).

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Learner Corpus Research Meets Second Language Acquisition , pp. 243 - 257
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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