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Learner corpus of spoken English: analysis of Czech university students’ performances

Autoři: Ježková Šárka

Rok: 2014

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Learner corpus of spoken English: analysis of Czech university students’ performances	This poster presents one part of a bigger project called “Aspects of English Language Acquisition of Czech Students on the Onset of Teacher Education”, aimed at the process of acquiring communicative competence in speaking English as a foreign language by Czech university learners. The research has been motivated by the question if the students are able to acquire the syntactic and discourse structures, observable in native speakers’ discourse (Biber et al. 1999). The first stage of the project was devoted to designing data collecting tools so that they suit the research aims and objectives and are in accordance with the current trends in the field. Then we focused on the selection of grammatical and discourse features the occurrence of which is examined in the learner corpus. In the process of selection, we took into account features listed as typical of spoken mode on the basis of their occurrence in large native English corpora (Biber et al. 1999). After piloting all the tools and after recording the interviews, the corpus comprises monologues and dialogues which were transcribed by students themselves and checked by the research team later. Even though the concepts of English as lingua franca and of learners’ English language differ, some of the tendencies in the usage of language can be similar (Seidlhofer 2011). Thus, based on the previous studies of English native speakers’ and non-native speakers’ spoken discourse (Mauranen 2012), certain grammatical features have been chosen, explored in learners’ corpus and considered within the concept of English as lingua franca. All the chosen grammatical structures are analysed with respect to the second language acquisition processes and considered within the background of systemic differences between English and Czech languages.	Learner corpus; spoken English; syntax; discourse analysis; language acquisition