Exploring Spoken English Learner Language Using Corpora: Learner Talk

by Eric Friginal, Brittany Polat, Audrey Roberson, et al.

Book Overview

This book presents a corpus-based study of spoken learner language produced by university-level ESL students in the classroom. Using contemporary theories as a guide and employing cutting-edge corpus analysis tools and methods, the authors analyse a variety of learner speech to offer many new insights into the nature and characteristics of the spoken language of college ESL learners. Focusing on types of speech that are rarely examined, this original...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319598996
• ISBN13: 9783319598994
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"