Focusing on the application of corpus linguistics, this book offers a practical guide for analyzing written language development in both first and second language learners. It explores how corpora can be utilized to track changes over time and assess proficiency across various levels, making it a valuable resource for educators and researchers interested in language acquisition and writing development.
This Element provides a comprehensive overview of collocation and writing quality as an area of academic scholarship and discusses the need for more multivariate research in studies that focus on understanding relationships between collocations and writing quality grades.
Through detailed discussion of around 250 studies, this book reviews seventy years of corpus linguistic research into how language develops in first and second language writing. It establishes a theoretical basis for this research, discusses what conclusions can be drawn from the existing literature and sets priorities for future research.