ICNALE Guide
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- ISBN 9781032180250
- Weight: 410g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2023
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book provides a practical and extensive guide for the International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of English (ICNALE), a unique dataset including more than 15,000 samples of Asian learners’ L2 English speeches and essays. It also offers approachable introductions to a variety of corpus studies on the aspects of Asian learners’ L2 English.
Key topics discussed in the book include:
- background, aims, and methods of learner corpus research
- principles, designs, and applications of the ICNALE
- vocabulary, grammar, and pragmatics in Asian learners’ L2 English, and
- individual differences of Asian learners and assessments of their speeches and essays
With many case studies and hands-on guides to utilise ICNALE data to the fullest extent, The ICNALE Guide is a unique resource for students, teachers, and researchers who are interested in a corpus-based analysis of L2 acquisition.
Shin'ichiro Ishikawa is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the School of Languages & Communication, Kobe University, Japan. His research interests cover corpus linguistics, statistical linguistics, TESOL, and SLA. He has been a leader of the ICNALE learner corpus project.
