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EUROCALL2014: EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION ENDS: 31st May 2014
EUROCALL2014
Groningen, The Netherlands, 20-23 August, 2014
http://www.eurocall2014.nl/
EUROCALL2014 is the 21st annual conference of EUROCALL, the European association of computer-assisted language learning. EUROCALL2014 will be held at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands from 20th to 23rd August 2014.
Early-bird registration ends on 31st May next. To register at the reduced rate, sign up for the conference not later than 31 May. For an outline of the programme, the list of accepted papers, workshops that you can take, and all the registration details, please visit the conference website.
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Dr S. Jager, ICT in Education, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen
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Adverb use and language proficiency in young learners’ writing
Pascual Pérez-Paredes and María Sánchez-Tornel
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 19:2. 2014. iii, 137 pp. (pp. 178–200)
Our research examines the use of general adverbs by learners across grades 5, 6, 9 and 10 in the International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage (ICCI) by looking at whether this use increases with age. For our research we use data from the Polish, Spanish and Chinese components in the ICCI, in particular, those from the “food” and “money” topics. Our results show that general adverbs are more widely used as age increases. Statistically significant differences were found between grade 6 and 10 learners across all three L1 groups in terms of the frequency of use of general adverbs, which suggests that 10-graders integrate adverbs in their discourse in ways that differ from those in previous years. This study, together with Pérez-Paredes & Díez-Bedmar’s (2012), suggests that learners below grade 9 are more unlikely to use adverbs.
Keywords: International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage, interlanguage development, age, learner writing, general adverbs