Analyzing grammatical structures in texts written by language learners
(2018) CALL your DATA Proceedings — ISBN: [9789057285943], 381-388, published
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- (en) In Secon Language Acquisition (SLA), the evaluation of a language learner's proficiency is a task that normally involves comparing the learner's production with a learning framework of the target language. One of the most well known frameworks is the Common European Framework for Languages, which establishes communicative goals for language learning in general. In this study, we automatically annotated a corpus of texts produced by language learners with pedagogically relevant grammatical structures and observed how these structures are being employed by learners from different proficiency levels. We analyzed the use of structures both in terms of evolution along the levels and in terms of level in which the structures are used the most. The annotated resource presents a rich source of information for teachers that wish to compare the production of their students with those of already certified language learners. Conference paper Introduction The evaluation of a language learner's performance when producing texts in a foreign language is not an easy task. The factors that impact the overall categorization of texts produced by learners are many, roughly ranging from vocabulary, to syntax and semantics, and to discourse strategies. One way of facilitating this task is to have a profile of the target skills, so that there are some hints on what to expect from a learner in each language level.
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Zilio, L., Wilkens, R., & Fairon, C. (2018). Analyzing grammatical structures in texts written by language learners. In Jozef Colpaert, Ann Aerts, Frederik Cornillie (ed.), CALL your DATA Proceedings (pp. 381-388). Universiteit Antwerpen. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/277011