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In:Learner Corpora in Language Testing and Assessment
Edited by Marcus Callies and Sandra Götz
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 70] 2015
► pp. 141–162

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A multidimensional analysis of learner language during story reconstruction in interviews

Published online: 9 April 2015
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https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.70.06per
In this research, we aim at profiling the picture description component of the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI) from a variationist perspective by using English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learner and native speaker data. Our aim is to gain further insight into the linguistic nature of one of the communicative events that is used to assess general ‘proficiency’: the interview. Our results show that the EFL learners represented in the LINDSEI approach the picture description task in ways that differ from the native speaker (NS) data set. This research discusses the differences in the frequency of use of several linguistic features and attempts to account for the impact of this gap between NS and non-native speaker (NNS) uses. From a language testing and assessment (LTA) perspective, our results and research methodology can be of use to complement the parameters that raters and testers usually employ to assess the quality of L2 output.
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