This book provides a clear introduction to the main methods of analyzing samples of learner language by examining the theoretical and research bases for each.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Collecting sample's of learner language
3. Error Analysis
4. Obligatory occasion analysis
5. Frequency analysis
6. Functional analysis
7. Analysing accuracy, complexity, and fluency
8. Interactional analysis
9. Conversation analysis
10. Sociocultural methods of analysis
11. Coding data qualitatively
12. Critical approaches to analysing learner language
13. Metaphor analysis
14. Computer-based analyses of learner language by Michael Barlow
15. Conclusion
Common terms and phrases: Afrikaans conceptual metaphor context conversation analysis errors example frequency analysis grammatical illocutionary acts interlanguage L2 acquisition language learning negotiation of meaning qualitative research second language acquisition utterances
