Investigating the promise of learner corpora: Methodological issues

CALICO Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 189-206

  Pendar, Nick ^a   Chapelle, Carol A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic Classification; Learner Corpora; Lexical Analysis of Learner Language

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044806758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20569017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/cj.v25i2.189-206     Document Type: Article

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