Learner language, learner corpora
An event entitled 'Learner language, learner corpora' will take place from 5 to 6 October 2012 in Oulu, Finland.
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05 October 2012, 00:00 CET
to 06 October 2012, 00:00 CET |
| Where | Oulu, Finland |
| Contact Name | LLLC2012 |
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The conference is aimed at those who use electronic data in learner language analyses, as well as those who study Finno-Ugric learner languages, their acquisition and teaching. Discussion will focus on identifying general tendencies or universals that are present in learner language regardless of the learner's mother tongue. |
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People learning a new language often make mistakes when speaking in the
target language. 'Interlanguage' is an emerging linguistic system that
has been developed by a learner of a second language (or L2) who has not
become fully proficient yet but is approximating the target language:
preserving some features of their first language (or L1), or
overgeneralising target language rules in speaking or writing the target
language and creating innovations.
Learner corpora are electronic collections of authentic foreign or
second language data. They differ from the data types commonly used by
second language acquisition and foreign language teaching (FLT)
researchers in two major respects:
- They are computerised and can be analysed using a wide range of
linguistic software tools which provide for quick and efficient
manipulation of the data and can enrich the data with linguistic
information (e.g., grammatical category and syntactic structure) ;
- They are large and constitute a reliable basis to describe and model learner language.