Sessions

Perspectives on English Learner Corpora

The presentation highlights innovative graduate research on learner corpora. The topics include: studying complexity through word class frequency; a perspective on language development as both loss and growth; considerations of what learners do not say; using a Pattern Dictionary to assess learner writing; and an influential approach to assessing correctness in learner writing. The presentation concludes with a discussion of what the learner corpus studies can contribute to the broader field of Corpus Linguistics.