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Spanish learner corpus research : current trends and future perspectives /
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 introductor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Studies in corpus linguistics ;
v. 78. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Spanish Learner Corpus Research; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Section 1. Introduction; Spanish learner corpus research; 1. Introduction; 2. The status of Spanish as a Foreign Language; 3. Learner corpus design and analysis in SLCR: Features and problems; 4. An overview of Spanish learner corpora; 5. Challenges to SLCR; 6. Contributions to this volume; Acknowledgments; References; What is missing in learner corpus design?; 1. Introduction; 2. What learner corpus researchers should know before using or creating corpora.
- 2.1 Basic concepts of corpus design and collection2.1.1 Machine-readability; 2.1.2 Authenticity; 2.1.3 Sampling; 2.1.4 Representativeness; 2.2 Pitfalls in designing learner corpora; 2.2.1 Target population; 2.2.2 Data collection methods; 2.2.3 Subcorpus design; 3. Meeting criteria in learner corpus design; 3.1 Sampling which reflects a full range of variability; 3.2 Effects of sample size; 3.3 Possible variations in learner corpus design; 4. Critical assessment and future directions; 4.1 Issues of balance and representativeness; 4.2 Data collection issues; References.
- Section 2. Compilation, annotation and exploitation of learner corpus dataLearner Spanish on computer; 1. Introduction; 2. CL, general learner corpora and main Spanish learner corpora; 2.1 Brief overview of the importance of CL, the emergence of learner corpora and their applications; 2.2 General review of the existing learner corpora in Spanish; 3. The CAES ('Corpus de Aprendices de Español') Project; 3.1 Origin and development of the project up to its current state; 3.2 General design and compilation.
- 3.3 Tasks devised for each of the levels considered and description of the sample collection method3.4 Text encoding and annotation; 3.5 The search tool; 4. Discussion of results obtained from the analysis of data gathered from CAES; 4.1 False friends; 5. Final reflections and questions for further consideration; Acknowledgments; PoS-tagging a Spanish oral learner corpus; 1. Introduction; 2. A brief overview of previous work; 2.1 Part of Speech tagging learner corpora; 2.2 Studies on articles in learner Spanish; 3. Methodology; 3.1 Corpus data; 3.2 Part-of-Speech (PoS) tagging.
- 3.3 Count of lexical units3.4 The corpus interface; 4. A sample analysis of learners' production of Spanish articles; 4.1 Motivation; 4.2 Results; 5. Discussion; 6. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; The LANGSNAP longitudinal learner corpus; 1. Learner corpora and the longitudinal study of second language acquisition; 2. Overview of the LANGSNAP project and corpus creation; 2.1 Design of LANGSNAP tasks; 2.2 Format of LANGSNAP corpus; 2.3 CLAN commands and data coding; 3. Measuring lexical development in the LANGSNAP corpus of L2 Spanish; 3.1 Research questions; 4. Results.