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Application of a Corpus to Identify Gaps between English Learners and Native Speakers

Year: 2015

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: In order to develop effective computerassisted language teaching systems for learners of English as a foreign language, it is first necessary to identify gaps between learners and native speakers in the four basic linguistic skills (reading, writing, pronunciation, and listening).To identify these gaps, the accuracy and fluency in language use between learners and native speakers should be compared using a learner corpus.However, previous corpora have not included all necessary types of linguistic data.Therefore, in this study, we aimed to design and build a new corpus comprising all types of linguistic data necessary for comparing accuracy and fluency in basic linguistic skills between learners and native speakers.

Source: Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC)

DOI: 10.18653/v1/w15-3406

Authors: Katsunori Kotani, Takehiko Yoshimi

Institution: Ryukoku University

Language: English

Topic: Second Language Acquisition and Learning

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science