Accuracy across proficiency levels: A learner corpus approach. Jennifer Thewissen. Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Lougain-la-Neuve, Belgium (2015). 342pp.

Chihiro Inoue

Centre for Research in English Language Learning & Assessment (CRELLA)

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Abstract

A review of the book based on Thewissen’s PhD thesis, which used the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE) (Granger et al., 2009) for two main purposes. The first purpose was to capture the development of linguistic accuracy of the argumentative essays written by learners of English at intermediate to advanced levels, namely B1 to C2 in the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) (Council of Europe, 2001). The second purpose was to create a set of L1-specific CEFR descriptors related to the linguistic accuracy by building on the results from the essays written by learners who have French as their L1.

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Research Output: Contribution to journal Article

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 124-125

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

System (Volume 70)

Publication milestones

Published - 04/09/2017

Publication status

Published - 04/09/2017

ISSN

0346-251X

External Publication IDs

handle.net: 10547/622303

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10.1016/j.system.2017.09.004

Thewissen review for System_rev.pdf

Accepted author manuscript, 155.84 KB

License:CC BY-NC-ND

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2017.09.004

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