Preferred patterns of use of positive and negative evaluative adjectives in native and learner speech: an ELT perspective.
(2011) New Trends in Corpora and Language Learning. — p. 198-212, published
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- This paper reports on an investigation of attitudinal stance (Biber et al. 1999, Conrad and Biber 1999) in native and learner speech. Attitudinal stance conveys speaker' attitudes, likes or dislikes, or evaluations of events or personal experiences, for example. The focus of the study is on the adjectives that native speakers and advanced EFL learners use recurrently to express both positive and negative evaluation (Hunston and Sinclair 1999). The adjectives under investigation (e.g. good, great, nice, wonderful, bad, awful, terrible) fit into Biber et al.'s (1999) evaluative/emotive subcategory of descriptors. Native speakers' and learners' use of evaluative adjectives are analysed using the Louvain Corpus of Native English Conversation and the French, German and Chinese components of the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage. The report concentrates on a number of findings from an analysis of the preferred syntactic and collocational patterns in which these adjectives tend to be used that can be regarded as useful targets for treatment in English language teaching (ELT).
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De Cock, S. (2011). Preferred patterns of use of positive and negative evaluative adjectives in native and learner speech: an ELT perspective. In Frankenberg-Garcia, A. (ed.), New Trends in Corpora and Language Learning. (p. p. 198-212). Continuum. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/226522