Syllabus/achievement requirements

Reading list:

Textbook:

  • Ellis, Rod & Gary Barkhuizen. 2005. Analysing Learner Language. Oxford University Press.

Articles:

Compendium to be bought at Akademika:

  • Aijmer, Karin. 2002. Modality in advanced Swedish learners’ written interlanguage. In S. Granger, J. Hung & S Petch-Tyson (eds), Computer Learner Corpora, Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 55-76.
  • Gilquin, Ga?tanelle. 2008. Combining contrastive and interlanguage analysis to apprehend transfer: detection, explanation, evaluation. In G. Gilquin, S. Papp & M.B. Díez-Bedmar (eds), Linking up Contrastive and Learner Corpus Research. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi. 3-34.
  • Granger, S. 2009. The contribution of learner corpora to second language acquisition and foreign language teaching: A critical evaluation. In Corpora and Language Teaching, K. Aijmer (ed.), 13-32. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Johns Benjamins.
  • Granger, Sylviane. 2008. Learner corpora. In A. Lüdeling & M. Kyt? (Eds.), Handbook on corpus linguistics (Vol. 1, pp. 259-75). Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter.
  • De Haan, Pieter & Monique van der Hagen. 2013. The search for sophisticated language in advanced EFL writing. In S. Granger, G. Gilquin & F. Meunier (eds), Twenty Years of Learner Corpus Research: Looking back, Moving ahead. “Corpora and Language in Use”, Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 103-116.
  • Hundt, Marianne & Katrin Vogel. 2011. Overuse of the progressive in ESL and learner Englishes – fact or fiction? In J. Mukherjee & M. Hundt (eds), Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes: Bridging a paradigm gap. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 145-166.
  • Mukherjee, Joybrato. 2009. The grammar of conversation in advanced spoken learner English: Learner corpus data and language-pedagogical implications. In Karin Aijmer (ed.) Corpora and Language Teaching. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 203-230.

 

Articles to be distributed in Fronter

  • ?del, Annelie. 2008. Metadiscourse across three varieties of English American, British, and advanced-learner English. In W. V. Rozycki, E. Nagelhout & U. Connor (eds), Contrastive Rhetoric: Reaching to Intercultural Rhetoric. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 45-63
  • Brand, Christiane & Sandra G?tz. 2011. Fluency versus accuracy in advanced spoken learner language: A multi-method approach. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 16:2, 255–275.
  • Gilquin, Ga?tanelle & Magali Paquot. 2008. Too chatty: Learner academic writing and register variation. English Text Construction 1(1): 41-61.
  • Granger, Sylviane. 2015. Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis. A reappraisal. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 1(1), 7-24.
  • Hasselg?rd, Hilde. 2017. Phraseological teddy bears. To appear in M. Mahlberg and V. Wiegand (eds), Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
  • Hasselg?rd, Hilde & Stig Johansson. 2011. Learner corpora and contrastive interlanguage analysis. In Meunier F., De Cock S., Gilquin G. and Paquot M. (eds), A Taste for Corpora. In honour of Sylviane Granger. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 33-62.
  • Hyland, Ken. 2002. Authority and invisibility: authorial identity in academic writing. Journal of Pragmatics 34, 1091–1112.
  • Leedham, Maria & Guozhi Cai. 2013. Besides . . . on the other hand: Using a corpus approach to explore the influence of teaching materials on Chinese students’ use of linking adverbials. Journal of Second Language Writing 22, 374-389.
  • Paquot, Magali. 2013. Lexical bundles and L1 transfer effects. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 18:3, 391-417.
  • R?mer, Ute. 2011. Corpus research applications in second language teaching. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Vol. 31, 205-225.
  • Seidlhofer, Barbara. 2004. Research perspectives on teaching English as a lingua franca. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (2004) 24, 209-239.

 

In addition each student must submit a bibliography of 2-4 articles (50-80 pages) to be read in connection with their term paper topic.

Students who have not taken ENG2162 may need to read up on learner language analysis in Johansson, Stig: Contrastive Analysis and Learner Language, 2008. Available in Fronter, http://fronter.com/uio

 

For reference:

Granger, Sylviane, Ga?tanelle Gilquin and Fanny Meunier (eds). 2015. Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research. Cambridge University Press. Available in hard copy and online from the University library.

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