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| Title | Constructing a blog corpus for Japanese learners of English | |
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Patrick Foss |
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Vol. 5, No. 1, Pages 65-76 |
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| Abstract |
Researchers have directed increased attention to the building and analysing of written learner corpora--databases of written language produced by language learners--to address issues such as the words that non-native learners of English use in their writing, and how their word use differs from that of native speakers. This paper offers an initial look at a new written learner corpus, currently under construction, which is composed of lower/intermediate-level learner blogs. Preliminary data from the corpus regarding high frequency vocabulary use is compared to frequency lists from the British National Corpus in order to illustrate basic usage differences. |
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