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Ellis, Nick C. – Language Learning, 2017
Usage-based approaches explore how we learn language from our experience of language. Related research thus involves the analysis of the usage from which learners learn and of learner usage as it develops. This program involves considerable data recording, transcription, and analysis, using a variety of corpus and computational techniques, many of…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics, Longitudinal Studies
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Ellis, Nick C.; Simpson-Vlach, Rita; Maynard, Carson – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
Natural language makes considerable use of recurrent formulaic patterns of words. This article triangulates the construct of "formula" from corpus linguistic, psycholinguistic, and educational perspectives. It describes the corpus linguistic extraction of pedagogically useful formulaic sequences for academic speech and writing. It determines…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Native Speakers