2014, Volume 8, Issue 3
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Apples, volume 8, issue 3, 2014
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The Use of Partitive Plural Predicatives by Learners of Finnish from Related and Non-related L1 Backgrounds: The same side of a slightly different coin
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)The use of the partitive case, a typical case characterizing Finnic languages, remains a constant struggle for learners of Finnish as a foreign language. This paper reports on a study on the (under)use of partitive plural ... -
Frequency Change Patterns across Proficiency Levels in Japanese EFL Learner Speech
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)This study investigated the overall patterns of variation across seven oral proficiency levels of 1,263 Japanese EFL learners and native English speakers. The methodological approach combined a learner corpus, language ... -
Interrogative Clauses across CEFR Levels in Finnish and Swedish as an L2
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)The present study investigates the frequency of three types of interrogative clauses in 329 semi-formal email messages written by language learners of Finnish and of Swedish spoken in Finland. All the written messages were ... -
Using Automatic Morphological Tools to Process Data from a Learner Corpus of Hungarian
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)The aim of this article is to show how automatic morphological tools originally used to analyze native speaker data can be applied to process data from a learner corpus of Hungarian. We collected written data from 35 ... -
The Corpus of Advanced Learner Finnish (LAS2): Database and toolkit to study academic learner Finnish
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)This paper introduces the Corpus of Advanced Learner Finnish (LAS2), one of the existing corpora of learner Finnish. The corpus was started at the University of Turku in 2007, and the initial motivation for its collection ... -
Establishing a Standardised Procedure for Building Learner Corpora
(Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, 2014)Decisions at the outset of preparing a learner corpus are of crucial importance for how the corpus can be built and how it can be analysed later on. This paper presents a generic workflow to build learner corpora while ...
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