Full Description
The aim of this book is to present a comprehensive picture of the current state of Spanish learner corpus research (SLCR), which makes it unique, since no other monograph has focused on collecting research dealing with learner corpora of any language other than English. In addition to an introductory appraisal of current SLCR, as well as a wake-up call reminding us that learner corpus design still needs to be improved, this volume features a selection of original studies ranging from general issues concerning learner corpora compilation to more specific aspects such as phonetic, lexical, grammatical and pragmatic features of the interlanguage of learners of Spanish, as reflected in corpus data. This volume will undoubtedly be of significant interest to researchers involved in corpus linguistics, second language acquisition research, as well as to professionals in the field of Spanish as a second language, including teachers, and creators and publishers of teaching materials.
Contents
1. Section 1. Introduction; 2. Spanish learner corpus research: Achievements and challenges (by Alonso-Ramos, Margarita); 3. What is missing in learner corpus design? (by Tono, Yukio); 4. Section 2. Compilation, annotation and exploitation of learner corpus data; 5. Learner Spanish on computer: The CAES 'Corpus de Aprendices de Espanol' project (by Rojo, Guillermo); 6. PoS-tagging a Spanish oral learner corpus: Criteria, procedure, and a sample analysis (by Campillos Llanos, Leonardo); 7. The LANGSNAP longitudinal learner corpus: Design and use (by Tracy-Ventura, Nicole); 8. The Aprescrilov corpus, or broadening the horizon of Spanish language learning in Flanders (by Buyse, Kris); 9. Spanish Corpus Proficiency Level Training Website and Corpus: An open-source, online resource for corpus linguistics studies (by Koike, Dale); 10. Section 3. Analysis of learner corpus data; 11. Factors that can have an impact on the processes of perceiving Spanish/L2 (by Blanco Canales, Ana); 12. Pragmatic principles in anaphora resolution at the syntax-discourse interface: Advanced English learners of Spanish in the CEDEL2 corpus (by Lozano, Cristobal); 13. Discourse markers in CEDEL2 and SPLLOC corpora of learner Spanish: Analysis of some lexical-pragmatic failures (by Vazquez Veiga, Nancy); 14. A corpus study of Spanish as a Foreign Language learners' collocation production (by Vincze, Orsolya); 15. Index
