Corpora and language learners / edited by Guy Aston, Silvia Bernardini, Dominic Stewart.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Ten years of TaLC / D. Stewart, S. Bernardini, G. Aston -- The textual priming of lexis / Michael Hoey -- Multiple comparisons of IL, L1 and TL corpora : the case of L2 acquisition of verb subcategorization patterns by Japanese learners of English / Yukio Tono -- New wine in old skins? A corpus investigation of L1 syntactic transfer in learner language / Lars Borin and Klas Prütz -- Demonstratives as anaphora markers in advanced learners' English / Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska -- How learner corpus analysis can contribute to language teaching : a study of support verb constructions / Nadja Nesselhauf -- The problem-solution pattern in apprentice vs. professional technical writing : an application of appraisal theory / Lynne Flowerdew -- Using a corpus of children's writing to test a solution to the sample size problem affecting type-token ratios / N. Chipere, D. Malvern and B. Richards -- Comparing real and ideal language learner input : the use of an EFL textbook corpus in corpus linguistics and language teaching / Ute Römer -- Can the L in TaLC stand for literature? / Bernhard Kettemann and Georg Marko -- Speech corpora in the classroom / Anna Mauranen -- Lost in parallel concordances / Ana Frankenberg-Garcia -- Examining native speakers' and learners' investigation of the same concordance data and its implications for classroom concordancing with ELF learners / Passapong Sripicharn -- Some lessons students learn : self-discovery and corpora / Pascual Pérez-Paredes and Pascual Cantos-Gómez -- Student use of large annotated corpora to analyze syntactic variation / Mark Davies -- Facilitating the compilation and dissemination of ad-hoc web corpora / William H. Fletcher.

Corpus-aided language pedagogy is one of the central application areas of corpus methodologies, and a test bed for theories of language and learning. This volume provides an overview of current trends, offering methodological and theoretical position statements along with results from empirical studies. The relationship between corpora and learning is examined from complementary perspectives -- the study of learner language, the didactic use of corpus findings, and the interaction between corpora and their users. Reflections on current theory and technology open and close the volume. With its fo.

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