INTERNATIONAL CORPUS OF LEARNER ENGLISH: VERSION 2 . Sylvaine Granger, Estelle Dagneaux, Fanny Meunier, and Magali Paquot (Eds.). Louvain-La-Neuve, France: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2009. Pp. 223.
INTERNATIONAL CORPUS OF LEARNER ENGLISH: VERSION 2 . Sylvaine Granger, Estelle Dagneaux, Fanny Meunier, and Magali Paquot (Eds.). Louvain-La-Neuve, France: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2009. Pp. 223.
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国际英语学习者语料库:第 2 版。
DOI:
10.1017/s0272263110000641
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发表时间:
2011
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4.1
通讯作者:
Mark Shea
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作者:
Mark Shea
speech acts, interactional particles, back-channeling, learner subjectivity toward pragmatic norms, and instruction of various pragmatic features. The data come from a variety of sources, such as naturalistic conversation data, oral elicitation tasks, DCTs, computerized tests, email exchanges, interviews, and retrospective verbal reports. The mode of conversation may be face-to-face, or through email or telephone, and both production and comprehension are examined. Cross-sectional and longitudinal research designs are employed as well as both quantitative and qualitative analyses. The extensive coverage and review of previous research in each chapter should be useful for investigators and graduate students interested in interlanguage pragmatics research. Although the book contains many interesting chapters, some of the experimental studies were not conducted appropriately. This is especially true for method comparison studies. One of the important considerations in any experimental study is the control of intervening factors, but not all of the authors were suffi ciently attentive to this potential problem. As a result, some studies did not control for participating instructors, researcher expectancy, time spent on instruction of the target structure, or measuring instruments. At least one of the studies does not have a control group and the explanation for this lack is neither scientifi c nor valid. Moreover, some authors discuss interaction effects when statistically signifi cant differences are not found, and they fail to mention whether differences between means had even reached a level of signifi cance. Most of these studies report a positive effect of instruction, but the results are not reliable because of these problems. Moreover, showing pragmatic development alone is trivial, in that almost all of the method comparison studies report a signifi cant improvement in the target structures irrespective of the nature of these structures but not necessarily of other structures. To show the effectiveness of instruction, it is essential to show that nontargeted items included in the comparison or control groups are acquired equally well by the experimental group. Another somewhat problematic aspect is a rather noticeable number of typographical errors. For example, Tateyama refers to three appendixes that are not actually included in the book. Despite these limitations, the book contains a number of insightful chapters and provides comprehensive analyses of a wide area of Japanese interlanguage pragmatics studies.