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CATEGORIES:Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
SUMMARY:The importance of SLA theory when designing L2 cor
 pora - Florence Myles\, University of Essex
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150219T170000
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/54643
DESCRIPTION:Learner corpora are becoming a significant asset f
 or second language acquisition research\, and are 
 becoming more varied and sophisticated (Barlow 200
 5\; Granger 2009\; 2011\; Granger\, Gilquin & Meun
 ier 2013\; Myles 2005\; in press\; Tono\, Kawaguch
 i & Minegishi 2012). In the early stages\, the foc
 us of Learner Corpus Research (LCR) was on descrip
 tion rather than interpretation. This focus has gr
 adually shifted\, and efforts have been made in th
 e LCR community towards a better grounding in SLA 
 theory (Granger 2011). Despite such evolution\,  s
 econd language researchers have been rather slow i
 n taking advantage of learner corpora and their as
 sociated computerised methodologies (Myles 2005)\,
  and LCR is often not well informed by SLA researc
 h\, making collaboration between the two fields so
 metimes more of a wish than a reality (Hasselgård 
 1999).\n\nThis talk will take stock of bi-directio
 nal moves (more corpora in SLA research and more S
 LA theory in LCR) and will argue the theoretical a
 nd empirical case for the need for SLA research me
 thodologies to move into the digital age and for L
 CR to take full account of developments in SLA the
 orising. It will outline what the purpose of SLA r
 esearch is\, and some of the current agendas of in
 terest to SLA theorists. It will then present the 
 theoretical case for learner corpora\, specifying 
 the requirements of current SLA agendas in terms o
 f learner corpus data\, before providing a brief s
 urvey of current learner corpus research\, and eva
 luating how far it meets the requirements of SLA r
 esearch. The talk will conclude with a discussion 
 of a possible agenda for the further development o
 f corpus-based research in SLA\, paying particular
  attention to issues of design principles\, bottom
  up and top down analyses of L2 corpora\, ethical 
 and copyright issues in building L2 corpora\, and 
 storage and access principles for users of L2 corp
 ora.\n
LOCATION:Lecture Block\, Room 5\, Sidgwick Site
CONTACT:Jamie Douglas
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