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.

 

Articles available in Canvas

?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.

Gablasova, Dana, Vaclav Brezina, and Tony McEnery. 2017. Exploring learner language through corpora: Comparing and interpreting corpus frequency information. Language Learning 67:S1, 130-154.

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.


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 Oslo University library.

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 Canvas under "Extra reading"

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