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The Passive in Learner English : Corpus Insights and Implications for Pedagogical Grammar

English (英語)

Learner Corpus Studies in Asia and the World

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神戸大学国際コミュニケーションセンター

2013-03-23

2014-06-24

The emergence of corpus-based research has revealed novel insights into the workings of the passive. In this article I give an overview of the new features that have emerged from the analysis of both native and learner corpora and check some of the findings, in particular those related to frequency of use and overpassivization, on the basis of two large learner corpus collections which contain written data from many different learner populations: the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE) (Granger et al 2009) and the International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of English (ICNALE) (Ishikawa 2011). I also examine a range of pedagogical grammars of English to assess to what extent they have integrated corpus-based insights and make suggestions for improved coverage of the passive.

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