Review of William J. Crawford (ed.), Multiple Perspectives on Learner Interaction. The Corpus of Collaborative Oral Tasks
(2023) International Journal of Learner Corpus Research — Vol. 9, n° 2, p. 283-288 (2023)
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- The main aim of the edited volume entitled “Multiple Perspectives on Learner Interaction. The Corpus of Collaborative Oral Tasks” is twofold. Not only does it introduce the Corpus of Collaborative Oral Tasks (CCOT) to the learner corpus and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) research communities, highlighing the unique make-up and characteristics of the corpus, but, as the title aplty suggests, it also brings together seven papers that showcase “a variety of ways that the CCOT can inform our understanding of peer interaction and task variation through the use of learner corpora” (p. 4). As underlined by the editor, William Crawford, in his introduction, the volume illustrates the potential of a shared corpus like the CCOT (which can be investigated by a range of scholars from different research traditions) to “promote the application of corpus linguistic methods to describing, interpreting, and theorizing about second language performance” (p. 1), thereby fostering more interactions between the fields of Learner Corpus Research (LCR) and SLAT (p. 4).
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De Cock, S. (2023). Review of William J. Crawford (ed.), Multiple Perspectives on Learner Interaction. The Corpus of Collaborative Oral Tasks. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, 9(2), 283-288. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/232797 (Original work published 2023)