Linking up contrastive and learner corpus research

Gaëtanelle Gilquin works at the University of Louvain (Belgium) as a researcher for the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS). Her research interests include corpus linguistics and contrastive linguistics, as well as the combined use of corpus and experimental data. She is the project leader of the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI).Szilvia Papp was Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TEFL at the University of Portsmouth (UK) between 1999-2007, before joining University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations where she is currently working as a Research and Validation Officer. Her research interests include child and adult second language acquisition, learner corpora and language testing.María Belén Díez-Bedmar is Assistant Professor at the University of Jaén (Spain), where she is currently working on her PhD. Her research interests include learner corpora, the acquisition of English as a foreign language, patterns of interlanguage evolution and the problematic areas in Spanish students’ use of English.

• Gaëtanelle GILQUIN, Szilvia PAPP and María Belén DÍEZ-BEDMAR: IntroductionI MethodologyGaëtanelle GILQUIN: Combining contrastive and interlanguage analysis to apprehend transfer: detection, explanation, evaluationAnnelie ÄDEL: Involvement features in writing: do time and interaction trump register awareness?II Learner lexisJohn CROSS and Szilvia PAPP: Creativity in the use of verb + noun combinations by Chinese learners of EnglishIII Learner syntaxCristóbal LOZANO and Amaya MENDIKOETXEA: Postverbal subjects at the interfaces in Spanish and Italian learners of L2 English: a corpus analysisJohn OSBORNE: Adverb placement in post-intermediate learner English: a contrastive study of learner corporaMaría Belén DÍEZ-BEDMAR and Szilvia PAPP: The use of the English article system by Chinese and Spanish learners Christelle COSME: Participle clauses in learner English: the role of transfer IV Learner discourseMarcus CALLIES: Easy to understand but difficult to use? Raising constructions and information packaging in the advanced learner varietyMike HANNAY and Elena MARTÍNEZ CARO: Thematic choice in the written English of advanced Spanish and Dutch learnersAnnemie DEMOL and Pascale HADERMANN: An exploratory study of discourse organisation in French L1, Dutch L1, French L2 and Dutch L2 written narratives

"… the contributions in this collection provide an excellent overview of the developments of learner corpus research" - in: Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Vol. 32 (2010)