A comparison of spoken and written learner corpora: analyzing developmental 277 patterns of vocabulary used by Japanese EFL learners

• Autores: Yuichiro Kobayashi
• Localización: Twenty years of learner corpus research: looking back, moving ahead / Sylviane Granger (ed. lit.), Gaëtanelle Gilquin (ed. lit.), Fanny Meunier (ed. lit.), 2013, ISBN 978-2-87558-199-0, págs. 277-287
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The purpose of this study is to compare the spoken and written language of Japanese learners of English. The man focus is on the developmental patterns of vocabulary in the different production modes. Two types of learner data were compared in this study. The spoken data were extracted from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Japanese Learner English Corpus (NICT JLE Corpus), and the written data were extracted from the Japanese EFL Learner Corpus (JEFLL Corpus). The approach adopted in this research has three characteristics. First of all, it is corpus-based. Second, it focuses on very common word-types. Third, it is based on multivariate analysis. Using these 100 common word-types, I will conduct a correspondence analysis in order to explore complex interrelationships between the word-types and subcorpora in the spoken and written data. The result of this study shows a contrast between spoken and written data as well as a contrast between novice and advanced learners.