Understanding Development and Proficiency in Writing: Quantitative Corpus Linguistic Approaches

Durrant, Philip; Brenchley, Mark; McCallum, Lee

ISBN 10: 1108477623 / ISBN 13: 9781108477628

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 2021

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• Titolo: Understanding Development and Proficiency in Writing: Quantitative Corpus Linguistic Approaches
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1108477623
• ISBN 13: 9781108477628
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

Gives a theoretical and empirical grounding for quantitative corpus linguistic research in first and second language writing development.

Informazioni sugli autori

Phil Durrant is Associate Professor in Language Education at the University of Exeter. He has been a language teacher and researcher for over twenty years, working at schools and universities in both the UK and Turkey. He has published widely on corpus linguistics, vocabulary learning and academic writing.

Mark Brenchley is Senior Research Manager at Cambridge Assessment, with a particular focus on writing, grammar, automarking, and corpus-based methodologies. With Phil Durrant, he co-built the Growth-in-Grammar corpus, a unique database of L1 student writing. He has published on linguistics in various media, including co-writing the Times Educational Supplement's Grammar Bites column.

Lee McCallum is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and has extensive teaching experience from Europe and the Far and Middle East. She is co-editor of The Assessment of L2 Written English across the MENA Region (2020).