Persistent errors in spoken English among Taiwanese and Czech learners at CEFR B2 and C1
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Tomáš Gráf
Abstract
The study provides empirical evidence illustrating the development of grammatical accuracy in spoken learner English from CEFR’s B2 to C1 levels of accuracy. It uses the CEFR-rated and error-tagged Taiwanese and Czech sub-corpora of LINDSEI containing altogether 54 B2 and 36 C1 speakers. The analysis of the 5,120 identified errors revealed a threefold increase in accuracy at the C1 level. However, some errors which might be labelled persistent were identified, namely errors in some aspects of the use of articles and errors in the use of some verb tenses. The study contributes to the discussion of criterial features for proficiency levels.
Abstract
The study provides empirical evidence illustrating the development of grammatical accuracy in spoken learner English from CEFR’s B2 to C1 levels of accuracy. It uses the CEFR-rated and error-tagged Taiwanese and Czech sub-corpora of LINDSEI containing altogether 54 B2 and 36 C1 speakers. The analysis of the 5,120 identified errors revealed a threefold increase in accuracy at the C1 level. However, some errors which might be labelled persistent were identified, namely errors in some aspects of the use of articles and errors in the use of some verb tenses. The study contributes to the discussion of criterial features for proficiency levels.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Complexity, accuracy and fluency in learner corpus research 1
- Investigating the scopes of textual metrics for learner level discrimination and learner analytics 21
- Syntactic complexity measures as linguistic correlates of proficiency level in learner Russian 51
- Development of L2 writing complexity 81
- Phraseological complexity in EFL learners’ spoken production across proficiency levels 115
- Persistent errors in spoken English among Taiwanese and Czech learners at CEFR B2 and C1 137
- Measuring lexical accuracy 159
- The effect of time and dimensions of collocational relationship on phraseological accuracy 181
- Interaction between grammatical accuracy and syntactic complexity at different proficiency levels 209
- Accuracy, syntactic complexity and task type at play in examination writing 241
- Contextualizing fluency in advanced spoken learner language 273
- Exploring the use of repeats in learners’ native and interlanguage production 299
- Index 325
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Complexity, accuracy and fluency in learner corpus research 1
- Investigating the scopes of textual metrics for learner level discrimination and learner analytics 21
- Syntactic complexity measures as linguistic correlates of proficiency level in learner Russian 51
- Development of L2 writing complexity 81
- Phraseological complexity in EFL learners’ spoken production across proficiency levels 115
- Persistent errors in spoken English among Taiwanese and Czech learners at CEFR B2 and C1 137
- Measuring lexical accuracy 159
- The effect of time and dimensions of collocational relationship on phraseological accuracy 181
- Interaction between grammatical accuracy and syntactic complexity at different proficiency levels 209
- Accuracy, syntactic complexity and task type at play in examination writing 241
- Contextualizing fluency in advanced spoken learner language 273
- Exploring the use of repeats in learners’ native and interlanguage production 299
- Index 325
