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SUMMARY:The importance of SLA theory when designing L2 corpora - Florence 
 Myles\, University of Essex
DTSTART:20150219T170000Z
DTEND:20150219T183000Z
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CONTACT:Jamie Douglas
DESCRIPTION:Learner corpora are becoming a significant asset for second la
 nguage acquisition research\, and are becoming more varied and sophisticat
 ed (Barlow 2005\; Granger 2009\; 2011\; Granger\, Gilquin & Meunier 2013\;
  Myles 2005\; in press\; Tono\, Kawaguchi & Minegishi 2012). In the early 
 stages\, the focus of Learner Corpus Research (LCR) was on description rat
 her than interpretation. This focus has gradually shifted\, and efforts ha
 ve been made in the LCR community towards a better grounding in SLA theory
  (Granger 2011). Despite such evolution\,  second language researchers hav
 e been rather slow in taking advantage of learner corpora and their associ
 ated computerised methodologies (Myles 2005)\, and LCR is often not well i
 nformed by SLA research\, making collaboration between the two fields some
 times more of a wish than a reality (Hasselgård 1999).\n\nThis talk will 
 take stock of bi-directional moves (more corpora in SLA research and more 
 SLA theory in LCR) and will argue the theoretical and empirical case for t
 he need for SLA research methodologies to move into the digital age and fo
 r LCR to take full account of developments in SLA theorising. It will outl
 ine what the purpose of SLA research is\, and some of the current agendas 
 of interest to SLA theorists. It will then present the theoretical case fo
 r learner corpora\, specifying the requirements of current SLA agendas in 
 terms of learner corpus data\, before providing a brief survey of current 
 learner corpus research\, and evaluating how far it meets the requirements
  of SLA research. The talk will conclude with a discussion of a possible a
 genda for the further development of corpus-based research in SLA\, paying
  particular attention to issues of design principles\, bottom up and top d
 own analyses of L2 corpora\, ethical and copyright issues in building L2 c
 orpora\, and storage and access principles for users of L2 corpora.\n
LOCATION:Lecture Block\, Room 5\, Sidgwick Site
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