Adjective Intensification Learner S Versus Native Speakers

Author : Gunter R. Lorenz
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9042005289

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Adjective Intensification--learners Versus Native Speakers by Gunter R. Lorenz Pdf

A study on material from the International Corpus of Learner English, supplemented by data from younger learners and native speakers. Explores four corpora of argumentative writing, two sampled from advanced learners of different ages and two from corresponding native speakers of English. Presents a functional account of adjective intensification in present-day written English, and examines native versus non-native usages and the notion of idiomaticity. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Sylviane Granger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317885580

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Learner English on Computer by Sylviane Granger Pdf

The first book of its kind, Learner English on Computer is intended to provide linguists, students of linguistics and modern languages, and ELT professionals with a highly accessible and comprehensive introduction to the new and rapidly-expanding field of corpus-based research into learner language. Edited by the founder and co-ordinator of the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE), the book contains articles on all aspects of corpus compilation, design and analysis. The book is divided into three main sections; in Part I, the first chapter provides the reader with an overview of the field, explaining links with corpus and applied linguistics, second language acquisition and ELT. The second chapter reviews the software tools which are currently available for analysing learner language and contains useful examples of how they can be used. Part 2 contains eight case studies in which computer learner corpora are analysed for various lexical, discourse and grammatical features. The articles contain a wide range of methodologies with broad general application. The chapters in Part 3 look at how Computer Learner Corpus (CLC) based studies can help improve pedagogical tools: EFL grammars, dictionaries, writing textbooks and electronic tools. Implications for classroom methodology are also discussed. The comprehensive scope of this volume should be invaluable to applied linguists and corpus linguists as well as to would-be learner corpus builders and analysts who wish to discover more about a new, exciting and fast-growing field of research.

Author : Chunyan Wang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315473727

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Patterns and Meanings of Intensifiers in Chinese Learner Corpora by Chunyan Wang Pdf

Intensification plays a major role in spoken and written interaction, enabling the writer or speaker to express different levels of commitment. This book explores the patterns and meanings of intensifiers in Chinese learner English by ways of comparison with native English. The study is conducted within the theoretical framework of Firthian contextual theory of meaning, Sinclairian model of Extended Units of Meaning (EUM) and Hunston's pattern grammar. The method of contrastive inter-language analysis (CIA) is adopted and the intensifier collocations in learner English and native English are explored by means of quantitative and qualitative analyses of corpora data. This book is the first attempt to investigate the patterning and meaning features of intensifiers systematically with the corpora data in Chinese learner English. Readers will obtain a relatively complete picture of how Chinese learners use intensifiers to realize their attitudinal meanings.

Author : Ana Frankenberg-Garcia,Lynne Flowerdew,Guy Aston
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441159960

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New Trends in Corpora and Language Learning by Ana Frankenberg-Garcia,Lynne Flowerdew,Guy Aston Pdf

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Author : John M. Kirk
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9042004193

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Corpora Galore by John M. Kirk Pdf

Author : F. van Eynde,Ineke Schuurman,Ness Schelkens
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9042006099

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Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 1998 by F. van Eynde,Ineke Schuurman,Ness Schelkens Pdf

This volume provides a selection of the papers which were presented at the ninth conference on Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (Leuven, 1998). It gives an accurate and up-to-date picture of the lively scene of computational linguistics in the Netherlands and Flanders. In terms of topics the contributions can be grouped under three headings: the use of statistical methods in speech and language processing (6 papers), the analysis of syntactic and semantic phenomena in the framework of computationally oriented formalisms, such as Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (5 papers), and the development of NLP applications, such as document processing, dialogue modelling and teaching (3 papers). The volume covers the whole range from theoretical to applied research and development, and is hence of interest to both academia and industry. The target audience consists of advanced students and scholars of computational linguistics, and speech and language processing (Linguistics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering).

Author : Diego Saglia
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9042004096

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Poetic Castles in Spain by Diego Saglia Pdf

Saglia, a scholar of some sort whose academic affiliations are not noted, charts the various ways in which, between the 1810s and 1820s, Spain figured in British literary culture. Mainly concerned with narrative versions of Spain, specifically metrical tales and verse romances, he traces the contours of the Spanish "imaginary" in British Romanticism, offering a cultural geography of Romantic Spain as a space of war involving not only France and Britain or the Spanish and Moorish armies, but ideological conflicts between public and private; republicanism, nationalism, and imperialism; and competing models of masculinity and femininity. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401206204

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Linking up contrastive and learner corpus research by Anonim Pdf

The papers brought together in this volume explore, through corpus data, the link between contrastive and interlanguage analysis. Learner corpora are approached from a contrastive perspective, by comparing them with native corpora or corpus data produced by learners from other mother tongue backgrounds, or by combining them with contrastive data from multilingual (translation or comparable) corpora. The integration of these two frameworks, contrastive and learner corpus research, makes it possible to highlight crucial aspects of learner production, such as features of non-nativeness (errors, over- and underuse, unidiomatic expressions), including universal features of interlanguage, or more general issues like the question of transfer. The ten papers of this volume cover topics ranging from methodology to syntax (e.g. adverb placement, postverbal subjects), through lexis (collocations) and discourse (e.g. information packaging, thematic choice). The languages examined include English, Chinese, Dutch, French and Spanish. The book will be of interest to a wide array of readers, especially researchers in second language acquisition and contrastive linguistics, but also professionals working in foreign language teaching, such as language teachers, materials writers and language testers.

Author : Magali Paquot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441102195

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Academic Vocabulary in Learner Writing by Magali Paquot Pdf

Academic vocabulary is in fashion, as witnessed by the increasing number of books published on the topic. In the first part of this book, Magali Paquot scrutinizes the concept of 'academic vocabulary' and proposes a corpus-driven procedure based on the criteria of keyness, range and evenness of distribution to select academic words that could be part of a common-core academic vocabulary syllabus. In the second part, the author offers a thorough analysis of academic vocabulary in the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE) and describes the factors that account for learners' difficulties in academic writing. She then focuses on the role of corpora, and more particularly, learner corpora, in EAP material design. It is the first monograph in which Granger's (1996) Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis is used to compare 10 ICLE learner sub-corpora, in order to distinguish between linguistic features that are shared by learners from a wide range of mother tongue backgrounds and unique features that may be transfer-related.

Author : Karin Aijmer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289988

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Corpora and Language Teaching by Karin Aijmer Pdf

The articles in this edited volume represent a broad coverage of areas. They discuss the role and effectiveness of corpora and corpus-linguistic techniques for language teaching but also deal with broader issues such as the relationship between corpora and second language teaching and how the different perspectives of foreign language teachers and applied linguists can be reconciled. A number of concrete examples are given of how authentic corpus material can be used for different learning activities in the classroom. It is also shown how specific learner problems for example in the area of phraseology can be studied on the basis of learner corpora and textbook corpora. On the basis of learner corpora of speech and writing it is further shown that even advanced learners of English are uncertain about stylistic and text type differences.

Author : Joybrato Mukherjee,Marianne Hundt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027223203

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Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes by Joybrato Mukherjee,Marianne Hundt Pdf

The articles in this volume are intended to bridge what Sridhar and Sridhar (1986) have called the 'paradigm gap' between traditional SLA research on the one hand and research into institutionalised second-language varieties in former colonial territories on the other. Since both learner Englishes and second-language varieties are typically non-native forms of English that emerge in language contact situations, it is high time that they are described and compared on an empirical basis in order to draw conceptual and theoretical conclusions with regard to their form, function and acquisition. The present collection of articles places special emphasis on empirical evidence obtained from large-scale analyses of computerised corpora of learner Englishes (such as the International Corpus of Learner English) and of second-language varieties of English (such as the International Corpus of English). It addresses questions such as ‘Are the phenomena we find in ESL and EFL varieties features or errors?’ or ‘How common and wide-spread are features across contact varieties of English?’

Author : Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Computational linguistics
ISBN : 3631583117

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Corpus Linguistics, Computer Tools, and Applications - State of the Art by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk Pdf

Contents: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk: PALC 2007: Where are we now? - Paul Rayson/Dawn Archer/Alistair Baron/Nicholas Smith: Travelling through time with corpus annotation software - Eugene H. Casad: Parsing texts and compiling a dictionary with shoebox - Belinda Maia/Rui Silva/Anabela Barreiro/Cecília Fróis: 'N-grams in search of theories' - Piotr Pęzik/Jung-jae Kim/Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann: MedEvi - A permuted concordancer for the biomedical domain - Patrick Hanks: Why the «word sense disambiguation problem» can't be solved, and what should be done instead - Rafał

Author : Haiyan Men
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811058226

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Vocabulary Increase and Collocation Learning by Haiyan Men Pdf

This book highlights research that expands on our knowledge of second- language collocation acquisition. It presents original findings based on the largest collocation database to date, encompassing over 8,000 collocations: verb + noun, adjective + noun, and noun + noun. These collocations, collected from a one-million-learner corpus, were not confined to English as a foreign language (EFL) learners at a particular proficiency level, but also included learners at three levels. As such, the book provides a panoramic view regarding L2 collocation acquisition, not only in terms of learners’ acquisition of different types of collocations, but in terms of the developmental patterns in L2 collocation learning. One major discovery is that there is a collocation lag as learners’ proficiency levels rise, which is associated with vocabulary increase, in particular semantic domains—a remarkable insight for second-language acquisition researchers, English teachers and EFL learners alike. The findings reported shed new light on how collocations are acquired by EFL learners, offering guidance on how they can best be taught. In closing, the book discusses pedagogical aspects that arise from considering how learners can be helped with collocation learning.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004333772

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Applied Corpus Linguistics by Anonim Pdf

This book will be of particular interest to anyone interested in the application of corpus linguistic techniques to language study and instruction. This volume includes selected papers from the Fourth North American Symposium, held in Indianapolis and hosted by the Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication at Indiana University Purdue University in Indianapolis (IUPUI) in November, 2002. These papers – from authors representing eight countries including the U.S., Belgium, China, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Spain – provide a wide range of views of and approaches to corpus linguistic. Topics range from theory and analysis to classroom application, and include the study of oral discourse as well as the study of written discourse, including internet-based discourse. Consequently, this volume is divided into two sections. The first section focuses on the use of corpus linguistics in the analysis of spoken and written discourse; the second section focuses on the direct pedagogical application of corpus linguistics, reflecting the applied foundation of this branch of linguistics.

Author : John McHardy Sinclair
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027222831

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How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching by John McHardy Sinclair Pdf

After decades of being overlooked, corpus evidence is becoming an important component of the teaching and learning of languages. Above all, the profession needs guidance in the practicalities of using corpora, interpreting the results and applying them to the problems and opportunities of the classroom. This book is intensely practical, written mainly by a new generation of language teachers who are acknowledged experts in central aspects of the discipline. It offers advice on what to do in the classroom, how to cope with teachers' queries about language, what corpora to use including learner corpora and spoken corpora and how to handle the variability of language; it reports on some current research and explains how the access software is constructed, including an opportunity for the practitioner to write small but useful programs; and it takes a look into the future of corpora in language teaching.