Complexity, accuracy and fluency in learner corpus research : setting the scene / Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska and Sandra Gö̈̈tz -- Investigating the scopes of textual metrics for learner level discrimination and learner analytics / Thomas Gaillat -- Syntactic complexity measures as linguistic correlates of proficiency level in learner Russian / Olesya Kisselev, Aleksandr Klimov and Mihail Kopotev -- Development of L2 writing complexity : clause types, L1 influence and individual differences / Hildegunn Dirdal -- Phraseological complexity in EFL learners' spoken production across proficiency levels / Magali Paquot, Dana Gablasova, Vaclav Brezina and Hubert Naets -- Persistent errors in spoken English among Taiwanese and Czech learners at CEFR B2 and C1 / Tomáš Gráf and Lan-Lanfen Huang -- Measuring lexical accuracy : the categorization of lexical errors in written L2 English / Tim Hoffmann -- The effect of time and dimensions of collocational relationship on phraseological accuracy / Stefania Spina -- Interaction between grammatical accuracy and syntactic complexity at different proficiency levels : Insights from a learner corpus / Jennifer Thewissen and Alena Anishchanka -- Accuracy, syntactic complexity and task type at play in examination writing : a corpus-based study / Olga Lyashevskaya, Olga Vinogradova and Anna Scherbakova -- Contextualizing fluency in advanced spoken learner language : a contrastive interlanguage analysis across L1s, task types and learning context variables / Sandra Götz, Christoph Wolk and Katja Jäschke -- Exploring the use of repeats in learners' native and interlanguage production / Hege Larsson Aas and Sylvi Rørvik.
Summary:
"This volume presents the high potential of learner corpus investigations for research into the CAF triad by presenting eleven original learner corpus-based studies which are set within solid theoretical frameworks, examine learner corpora with state-of-the-art analytical techniques and yield highly interesting findings. The volume's major strength lies in the range of issues it undertakes and in its interdisciplinary thematic novelty. The chapters collectively address all three dimensions of L2 performance related to different linguistic subsystems (i.e. lexical, phraseological and grammatical complexity and accuracy, along with fluency) as well as the interactions among these constructs. The studies are based on data drawn from carefully compiled learner corpora which are analysed with the help of diverse corpus-based methods. The theoretical discussions and the empirical results shall contribute to the advancement of the field of SLA and Writing and Speech Research and shall inspire further investigations in the area of the CAF triad"-- Provided by publisher.
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