Lan-fen Huang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lan-fen Huang is involved.
Articles
2023 Oral reading tasks as proficiency indicators: Insights from a learner corpus study International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 9:2, pp. 155–179 | Article
This study aims to explore the potential of oral reading tasks to establish learners’ proficiency when compiling learner corpora. Informed by research on oral reading fluency, we selected a text containing a variety of linguistic features and submitted it to 68 English learners in Taiwan, who… read more
2023 Development of the use of discourse markers across different fluency levels of CEFR: A learner corpus analysis Pragmatics 33:1, pp. 49–77 | Article
Fluent L2 English speakers frequently use discourse markers (DMs) as a speech management strategy, but research has largely ignored how this develops across different proficiency levels and how it is related to immersive experiences. This study examines the developmental patterns of three DMs –… read more

