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Corpus Methods in Interlanguage Analysis
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KORTE, MATTHEW
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Year and Degree
2008, MEd, University of Cincinnati, Education : Literacy.
Abstract
In the study of second language acquisition, interlanguage is taken to be a learner's internally coherent and systematic approximation of a target language. Where error analysis can reveal outright error in learner production, it cannot capture formally correct but pragmatically or semantically deviant usage. It is known, for example, that learners may use avoidance strategies or manifest correct but non-native sounding usage due to first language transfer effects. Corpus-analytic approaches to interlanguage are uniquely suited to capture these deviant forms of learner usage, by comparing frequencies of occurrence between learner and native speaker corpora. This paper investigates a number of parameters on which such comparison can be made, including univariate and multivariate statistical measures. These statistical corpus techniques in language analysis are closely aligned with cognitive and pattern grammar approaches.
Committee
Mary Benedetti (Committee Chair)
Gulbahar Beckett (Committee Member)
Pages
62 p.
Subject Headings
Educational Software
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Educational Theory
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Linguistics
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Literacy
Keywords
interlanguage
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corpus linguistics
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second language acquisition
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KORTE, M. (2008).
Corpus Methods in Interlanguage Analysis
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1218835515
APA Style (7th edition)
KORTE, MATTHEW.
Corpus Methods in Interlanguage Analysis.
2008. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1218835515.
MLA Style (8th edition)
KORTE, MATTHEW. "Corpus Methods in Interlanguage Analysis." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1218835515
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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Corpus Methods in Interlanguage Analysis by MATTHEW KORTE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
This open access ETD is published by University of Cincinnati and OhioLINK.