Combining experimental data and corpus data: Intermediate French-speaking learners and the English present
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Damien Littré is scientific collaborator at the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics in Louvain-la-Neuve. His research focuses on tense and aspect in advanced L2 learners.
Abstract
This study combines experimental data and corpus data to describe how intermediate French-speaking learners of English perceive and (mis-)use the English present simple and present progressive.
A first part of this study reports the results from an interpretation task conducted with first year, French-speaking, English language and literature university students (n = 75). With some exceptions, students were found to show greater acceptance of more prototypical prompts. They also exhibited higher certainty with these prompts.
The second part of the study examines productive data from LONGDALE, a new longitudinal database of learner writing and speaking. Using annotated data for first year students, errors involving the present simple and progressive were extracted and classified in light of the interpretation task. Students were found to still make errors involving basic functions of the simple and progressive, as well as other errors that might be amenable to teaching.
Finally, pedagogical implications are discussed.
About the author
Damien Littré is scientific collaborator at the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics in Louvain-la-Neuve. His research focuses on tense and aspect in advanced L2 learners.
©2015 by De Gruyter Mouton
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