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Peer reviewedFerris, Dana R. – Journal of Second Language Writing, 1993
Using data from a large second-language (L2) text analysis (160 texts, 62 variables) in which automatic analysis was not used, it is demonstrated that a computer program designed for first-language texts is not accurate enough to capture completely the structures used by L2 writers. Suggestions are offered for an L2 text analysis program. (17…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Language Research, Second Language Learning, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
