Information Highlighting In Advanced Learner English

Author : Marcus Callies
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289483

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This book presents the first detailed and comprehensive study of information highlighting in advanced learner language, echoing the increasing interest in questions of near-native competence in SLA research and contributing to the description of advanced interlanguages. It examines the production and comprehension of specific means of information highlighting in English by native speakers and German learners of English as a foreign language, presenting triangulated experimental and learner corpus data as corroborating evidence. The study focuses on learners’ use of discourse-pragmatically motivated variations of the basic word order such as inversion, preposing, and it- and wh-clefts, an underexplored field in SLA research to date.The book also provides a critical re-assessment of the study of pragmatics within SLA. It has largely been neglected to date that L2 pragmatic knowledge includes more than the sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic abilities for understanding and performing speech acts. Thus, the book argues for an extension of the scope of inquiry in interlanguage pragmatics beyond the cross-cultural investigation of speech acts. It also discusses pedagogical implications for foreign language teaching and will be of interest to applied linguists and SLA researchers, language teachers and curriculum designers.

Author : Marcus Callies
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027254313

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Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English by Marcus Callies Pdf

This book presents the first detailed and comprehensive study of information highlighting in advanced learner language, echoing the increasing interest in questions of near-native competence in SLA research and contributing to the description of advanced interlanguages. It examines the production and comprehension of specific means of information highlighting in English by native speakers and German learners of English as a foreign language, presenting triangulated experimental and learner corpus data as corroborating evidence. The study focuses on learners' use of discourse-pragmatically motivated variations of the basic word order such as inversion, preposing, and it- and wh-clefts, an underexplored field in SLA research to date.The book also provides a critical re-assessment of the study of pragmatics within SLA. It has largely been neglected to date that L2 pragmatic knowledge includes more than the sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic abilities for understanding and performing speech acts. Thus, the book argues for an extension of the scope of inquiry in interlanguage pragmatics beyond the cross-cultural investigation of speech acts. It also discusses pedagogical implications for foreign language teaching and will be of interest to applied linguists and SLA researchers, language teachers and curriculum designers.

Author : Marcus Callies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:732803153

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Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English. The Syntax-Pragmatics Interface in Second Language Acquisition by Marcus Callies Pdf

Author : Jesús Romero-Trillo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789400762503

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Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2013 by Jesús Romero-Trillo Pdf

The Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2013 discusses current methodological debates on the synergy of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics research. The volume presents insightful pragmatic analyses of corpora in new technological domains and devotes some chapters to the pragmatic description of spoken corpora from various theoretical traditions. The Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics series will give readers insight into how pragmatics can be used to explain real corpus data, and, in addition, how corpora can explain pragmatic intuitions, and from there, develop and refine theory. Corpus Linguistics can offer a meticulous methodology based on mathematics and statistics, while Pragmatics is characterized by its efforts to interpret intended meaning in real language. This yearbook offers a platform to scholars who combine both research methodologies to present rigorous and interdisciplinary findings about language in real use.

Author : Sylviane Granger,Gaëtanelle Gilquin,Fanny Meunier
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9782875581990

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Twenty Years of Learner Corpus Research. Looking Back, Moving Ahead by Sylviane Granger,Gaëtanelle Gilquin,Fanny Meunier Pdf

This proceedings volume covers issues of learner corpus design, collection and annotation and contains reports on various aspects of (written and spoken) learner interlanguage as well as design of learner-corpus-informed tools.

Author : Sandra Götz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027203588

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Fluency in Native and Nonnative English Speech by Sandra Götz Pdf

This book takes a new and holistic approach to fluency in English speech and differentiates between productive, perceptive, and nonverbal fluency. The in-depth corpus-based description of productive fluency points out major differences of how fluency is established in native and nonnative speech. It also reveals areas in which even highly advanced learners of English still deviate strongly from the native target norm and in which they have already approximated to it. Based on these findings, selected learners are subjected to native speakers' ratings of seven perceptive fluency variables in order to test which variables are most responsible for a perception of oral proficiency on the sides of the listeners. Finally, language-pedagogical implications derived from these findings for the improvement of fluency in learner language are presented. This book is conceptually and methodologically relevant for corpus-linguistics, learner corpus research and foreign language teaching and learning.

Author : Nikola Dobrić,Eva-Maria Graf,Alexander Onysko
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443898195

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Corpora in Applied Linguistics by Nikola Dobrić,Eva-Maria Graf,Alexander Onysko Pdf

This volume brings together contributions from the Klagenfurt Conference of Corpus-Based Applied Linguistics (CALK14), in order to extend corpus linguistic research in different areas of applied linguistics. The studies gathered here explore the opportunities that both spoken and written corpora offer for answering questions in different domains of applied linguistics such as second language learning, language testing, comparative linguistics, learner pragmatics and specialised discourses. At the same time, the contributions also give insight into possible limitations and further challenges of corpus-based research in these areas.

Author : Pascale Leclercq,Amanda Edmonds,Heather Hilton
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783092307

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Measuring L2 Proficiency by Pascale Leclercq,Amanda Edmonds,Heather Hilton Pdf

The creation of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) has given rise to interest and debate among policy makers, testers, teachers and researchers alike in the reliability and feasibility of the assessment of second language (L2) proficiency. This volume brings together concrete ideas on identifying and measuring L2 proficiency from different branches of SLA research (psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, corpus-based, applied linguistics) to contribute to a deeper understanding of what it means to be proficient in an L2. The chapters introduce a wide range of tools that are innovative, reliable, and easy-to-use for the evaluation of learners’ language level with respect to both productive and receptive skills and provide a variety of answers to the question of how to assess L2 proficiency in a valid, reliable and practical manner. The collection will therefore inspire language teachers, teacher trainers and language testing specialists and help them adapt their assessment practices when necessary, and will also be a valuable resource for postgraduate students and researchers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Jonathon Ryan,Peter Crosthwaite
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429559006

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Referring in a Second Language by Jonathon Ryan,Peter Crosthwaite Pdf

The introduction and tracking of reference to people or individuals, known as referential movement, is a central feature of coherence, and accounts for “about every third word of discourse”. Located at the intersection of pragmatics and grammar, reference is now proving a rich and enduring source of insight into second language development. The challenge for second language (L2) learners involves navigating the selection and positioning of reference in the target language, continually shifting and balancing the referential means used to maintain coherence, while remaining acutely sensitive to the discourse and social context. The present volume focuses on how L2 learners meet that challenge, bringing together both eminent and up-and-coming researchers in the field of L2 acquisition. The chapters address a range of problems in second language acquisition (SLA) (e.g., form-function mapping, first language [L1] influence, developmental trajectories), and do so in relation to various theoretical approaches to reference (e.g., Accessibility Theory, Givenness Hierarchy). The global outlook of these studies relates to the L2 acquisition of English, French, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish and covers a diverse range of situational contexts including heritage language learning, English as a medium of instruction, and the development of sociolinguistic competence.

Author : Danuta Gabryś-Barker
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788920582

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Morphosyntactic Issues in Second Language Acquisition by Danuta Gabryś-Barker Pdf

The volume consists of articles on issues relating to the morphosyntactic development of foreign language learners from different L1 backgrounds, in many cases involving languages which are typologically distant from English, such has Polish, Greek and Turkish. It highlights areas which may be expected to be especially transfer-prone at both the interlingual and intralingual levels. The articles in the first part report empirical studies on word morphology and sentence patterns and also look at the interface of lexis and grammar in the discourse and syntactic processing of foreign language learners. The second part elaborates on pedagogical issues concerning the acquisition of difficult grammatical features such as the English article system or the ‘s’ ending in the third person singular. It also comments more generally on the way pedagogic grammar functions in the learning of the L2.

Author : Maik Walter,Patrick Grommes
Publisher : ISSN
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Computers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122459410

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Fortgeschrittene Lernervarietäten by Maik Walter,Patrick Grommes Pdf

Der Sammelband umfasst Beiträge, die sich mit dem sprachlichen Verhalten fortgeschrittener Lerner einer fremden Sprache beschäftigen. In der Zweitspracherwerbsforschung hat man sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten vornehmlich mit den frühen Stadien beschäftigt. Im Gegensatz zu den frühen Stadien ist das sprachliche Verhalten fortgeschrittener Lerner wesentlich schwieriger zu untersuchen, da ein Komplex ganz unterschiedlicher Faktoren dieses Verhalten bestimmt. Durch die in den letzten Jahren viel diskutierten korpuslinguistischen Methoden können Gesetzmäßigkeiten des sprachlichen Verhaltens präzise beschrieben werden.

Author : Bettina Kraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132277703

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Cross-cultural Pragmatics and Interlanguage English by Bettina Kraft Pdf

Author : Dirk Siepmann,John D. Gallagher,Mike Hannay,Lachlan Mackenzie
Publisher : UTB
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783825256586

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Writing in English: A Guide for Advanced Learners by Dirk Siepmann,John D. Gallagher,Mike Hannay,Lachlan Mackenzie Pdf

This book offers practical advice and guidance to German-speaking undergraduates and academics who aspire to write in English. It also provides valuable assistance to editors, examiners and teachers who conduct English courses for intermediate or advanced students. It consists of four modules and is rounded off with a subject index and a glossary. Making extensive use of authentic texts, the authors adopt a contrastive approach and focus on the major problems encountered by Germans writing in English. This third edition has been thoroughly revised, updated and expanded to include, among other things, advice on how to use new Internet technology.

Author : John Sinclair,John M. Sinclair
Publisher : Collins Cobuild
Page : 1776 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131881232

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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary by John Sinclair,John M. Sinclair Pdf

The new fifth edition of the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary offers up-to-date coverage of today's English in a clear, attractive format.