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COMPUTER LEARNER CORPORA, SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2005

Lawrence J. Zwier
Lawrence J. Zwier
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Michigan State University
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COMPUTER LEARNER CORPORA, SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING. Sylviane Granger, Joseph Hung, and Stephanie Petch-Tyson (Eds.). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2002. Pp. x + 246. $42.95 paper.

Insights derived from language corpora have influenced countless aspects of language teaching, testing, research, and materials development. Granger, Hung, and Petch-Tyson have created an indispensable testament to the specific value of corpora in SLA research. A great virtue of this volume is that the corpus is treated as a tool, and the tool does not distract from the job at hand. The focus is where it should be—on features of native language, interlanguage, and target language as elucidated by corpus-based study. The corpora stand in the background, ready to serve.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , March 2005 , pp. 108 - 109
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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