Learner Corpora in Language Testing and Assessment

“This volume is a most welcomed addition to the research community of corpus linguistics and to that of applied linguistics, and will interest readers looking for applications for data-driven corpus linguistic studies and for readers focusing on both L1 and L2 proficiency and language testing and assessment. All chapters have a successful balance between detail and depth on the one hand, and brevity and relatively short chapters on the other hand.”

“Overall, this book delivers what it sets out to do, which is to make “this emerg- ing new research eld, that is situated at the interface of LTA and learner corpus research, more visible to the corpus linguistics and applied linguistics research communities” (2015: 1). All contributors present clearly described original stud- ies based on a variety of learner and native corpora, with several new tools and various new methods introduced that will serve to increase the interdisciplinary collaboration between the elds of LCR, CL, and LTA. is edited collection of papers provides a coherent approach to the current and potential use of learner corpora for LTA. Despite a few minor shortcomings, this volume is accessible and very informative and should meet the needs of any researcher, teacher or language tester seeking contemporary studies about learner corpus-informed research in practice together with some inspiration to try out new approaches, methods, and corpora in their own contexts.”