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Selected syntactic features of the Czech learner corpus of spoken English

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	Selected syntactic features of the Czech learner corpus of spoken English	The poster presents one part of a bigger multidimensional project called “Aspects of English Language Acquisition of Czech Students on the Onset of Teacher Education”, which aims at identifying external and internal factors influencing the process of learning English as a foreign language by Czech learners, particularly the achieved level of communicative competence in speaking. This particular part of the research is focused on the analysis of Czech university students’ performances (including both monologue and dialogue), with respect to the specific features of spoken discourse. The corpus comprises recordings of first year students from three Czech universities 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 significantly 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’ conversation (Biber et al. 1999) and non-native speakers’ discourse (Mauranen 2012, Götz and Schilk 2011, Housen 2002, Meunier 2002), certain grammatical features have been chosen, explored in learners’ corpus and considered within the concept of English as lingua franca. It has been revealed that similar processes like simplification, diversification, regularization and productivity are also observable in the learners’ English language. All the chosen grammatical structures (e.g. verb forms: concord, tense, aspect, irregular forms; nominal forms: singular vs. plural, nominative vs. accusative; relative pronouns, assertive vs. non-assertive pronouns, word classes and word formation, double negation, double comparison, etc.) are analysed with respect to the second language acquisition processes and considered within the background of systemic differences between English and Czech languages.	syntactic analysis; learner corpus; English language acquisition