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Una aproximación al estudio del corpus de aprendices serbios de E/LE
An Approach to the Studo of the Corpus of Serbian Learners of Spanish as a Foreign Language

Author(s): Gorana Zečević Krneta
Subject(s): Foreign languages learning
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: computational linguistics; learner corpus research; pedagogical implications; second language acquisition; Spanish as a Foreign Language

Summary/Abstract: Due to the fact that learner corpus research relies on findings from corpus linguistics, linguistic theory, second language acquisition, and foreign language teaching, it is commonly claimed that language corpora have many uses in terms of relevance for language teaching and learning. However, corpus elaboration is a very difficult and demanding part of this methodological approach. In this paper, special attention is given to learner corpora and, more specifically, to its elaboration. The learner corpus in the case of Spanish as a Foreign Language has been presented, along with the implications of its use. However, there is a need for more systematic studies on the effectiveness of learner corpora in language teaching. The article closes with a list of priorities for further work on an electronic database of learner corpus in the case of Spanish as a Foreign Language.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 413-422
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Spanish
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