Gaëtanelle Gilquin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3532192 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gaëtanelle Gilquin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gaëtanelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilquin |
| SIGNATURE | GILQUIN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCLouvain |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7747-6443 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Corpus Linguistics to Tackle the Learning and Teaching of Multiword Units
Aims and Objectives: The article aims to show that corpora have made it possible to expand the field of phraseology and gain a better understanding of multiword units, including in foreign or second language learning and teaching. At the same time, however, it argues that corpora cannot answer all questions related to multiword units in and for learners and it therefore pleads for the combination of corpora with other sources of information. Appr…
Corpus Analysis of Learner Language
Researchers are increasingly applying corpus techniques to study learner language. This entry provides an overview of such techniques and research designs, focusing specifically on those that are directly relevant to the study of learner production. We also cover domains within which most learner corpus research has been carried out. Such domains include lexis, phraseology, grammar, and linguistic complexity.
Reassessing the Learner Englishes–New Englishes Continuum
This study reexamines Learner Englishes (LEs)–New Englishes (NEs) continuum by considering intervarietal variation, mode differences, and multiple linguistic levels. Relying on comparable written and spoken corpus data, we investigate the valency patterns and senses of the verb TAKE across two LEs (Mainland Chinese English (MCE) and Belgian French-speaking English (BFE)) and two NEs (Singapore English (SgE) and Hong Kong English (HKE)) within the…
Second and foreign language learners
Aims: This study investigates the possible effect of language exposure on the use of multiword units, and more precisely phrasal verbs with up . It compares two learner populations that receive different types and amounts of input, namely, learners of English as a second language, who get exposed to English in various everyday contexts, and learners of English as a foreign language, whose main source of exposure to English is limited to language …
From second language acquisition research to foreign language teaching through the prism of corpora
Corpus linguistics can be seen as a set of methods applicable to different branches of linguistics. This article deals with the application of corpus linguistics (including learner corpus research) to second language acquisition (SLA) research and foreign language teaching (FLT). It describes the existing links between these frameworks, arguing that the combinations usually work in pairs. By contrast, the concept of corpus-based theory-to-practic…
Constrained communication in EFL and ESL
This study relies on the constrained communication framework to compare the use of embedded inversion in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and English as a Second Language (ESL). It is based on several (sub)corpora of EFL and ESL, but also reference corpora of native English, which differ along the constraint dimensions of language activation (monolingual/bilingual), proficiency (native users/proficient L2 users/learners), and modality (speech/…
A Corpus Study of Dyslexic University Students’ L2 Writing Processes
Second/foreign language (L2) writing is a critical skill for university students, and one that has attracted a great deal of attention in the literature on academic writing. Yet, one aspect that has received relatively less attention so far is the writing processes of language learners with dyslexia in this context. This study investigates the L2 writing processes of high-functioning dyslexic university students compared to their non-dyslexic cou…
The Processing of Multiword Units by Learners of English
Different methods and sources of information have been proposed in the literature to study the processing of language and, in particular, instances of formulaic language such as multiword units. This article explores the possibility of using pause placement in writing process data to determine the likelihood that a multiword unit is processed as a whole in the mind. The data are texts produced by learners of English and corresponding keylog files…
One norm to rule them all? Corpus-derived norms in learner corpus research and foreign language teaching
This paper considers the issue of the norm in the context of learner corpus research and its implications for foreign language teaching. It seeks to answer three main questions: Does learner corpus research require a native norm? What corpus-derived norms are available and how do we choose? What do we do with these norms in the classroom? The first two questions are more research-oriented, reviewing the types of reference corpora that can be used…
The Use of Online Writing Tools by Learners of English
This paper examines the use of online writing tools by French-speaking learners of English based on the analysis of screen recordings of a free composition task that come from the Process Corpus of English in Education, a process corpus of learner writing. The study charts learners’ use of online resources by investigating how often learners resort to tools, which tools they use, and what effect the use of tools has on their texts. Results show c…
Using corpora to foster L2 construction learning
This paper adopts a construction grammar approach to test the efficiency of data‐driven learning (DDL) when applied to constructions. High‐intermediate learners of English as a foreign language took part in an experiment consisting, for each construction, in (i) a pre‐test, in which the learners had to produce as many sentences as possible illustrating the constructions, (ii) a DDL intervention, which involved various concordance‐based activities…
Nick C. Ellis, Ute Römer, and Matthew Brook O’Donnell
This book, published in the Language Learning Monograph Series, is the result of a long-lasting collaboration between three researchers, Nick Ellis, Ute Römer, and Matthew Brook O’Donnell, who come from different—but complementary—backgrounds: cognitive psychology, corpus linguistics, and computer science. This combined expertise shines through in each of the 10 chapters which, taken together, provide a comprehensive account of the use, acquisiti…
At the interface of contact linguistics and second language acquisition research
This paper examines the possible interface between contact linguistics and second language acquisition research by comparing the institutionalized second-language varieties of English known as “New Englishes” and the foreign varieties of English called “Learner Englishes”. On the basis of corpus data representing several populations of various origins, it investigates four linguistic phenomena, ranging from syntax (embedded inversion) to lexis (p…
Making sense of collostructional analysis
This paper looks at the ways of refining the technique of collostructional analysis, and more precisely multiple distinctive collexeme analysis, by taking word senses into account. It presents the main results of a sense-based multiple distinctive collexeme analysis of the non-finite verb slot of English periphrastic causative constructions and shows how these results compare with those of a lemma-based analysis of the same data. The study reveal…
Errors and disfluencies in spoken corpora
In this introduction, we wish to provide a broad overview of errors and disfluencies, showing how they are defined â and distinguished from each other â in the literature, and what impact the corpus revolution has had on the study of these phenomena. We will also demonstrate the usefulness of investigating such items by examining some of the possible applications of the study of errors and disfluencies
Elephants Who Marry Mice are Very Unusual
This paper explores the use of the relative pronoun (who) with nonhuman animals. The paper looks at what dictionaries, an encyclopedia, grammars, publication manuals, newspapers, and news agencies say and do relative to this issue. In addition to investigating the views and practices of these authoritative publications, the study also searched a 100-million-word collection (corpus) of spoken and written English. The study found that while some re…
Automatic retrieval of syntactic structures
The study of complex grammatical patterns tends to be neglected by corpus linguists, the main reason being that such phenomena are much more difficult to extract from a corpus than simple words or tags. I demonstrate in this article that, although the desirable parsed corpora and appropriate software are not always available, the retrieval of syntactic structures can be automated to a certain extent. A number of corpus-based grammatical analyses,…
At the interface of contact linguistics and second language acquisition research
This paper examines the possible interface between contact linguistics and second language acquisition research by comparing the institutionalized second-language varieties of English known as “New Englishes” and the foreign varieties of English called “Learner Englishes”. On the basis of corpus data representing several populations of various origins, it investigates four linguistic phenomena, ranging from syntax (embedded inversion) to lexis (p…
Elephants Who Marry Mice are Very Unusual
This paper explores the use of the relative pronoun (who) with nonhuman animals. The paper looks at what dictionaries, an encyclopedia, grammars, publication manuals, newspapers, and news agencies say and do relative to this issue. In addition to investigating the views and practices of these authoritative publications, the study also searched a 100-million-word collection (corpus) of spoken and written English. The study found that while some re…
Using corpora to foster L2 construction learning
This paper adopts a construction grammar approach to test the efficiency of data‐driven learning (DDL) when applied to constructions. High‐intermediate learners of English as a foreign language took part in an experiment consisting, for each construction, in (i) a pre‐test, in which the learners had to produce as many sentences as possible illustrating the constructions, (ii) a DDL intervention, which involved various concordance‐based activities…
The Processing of Multiword Units by Learners of English
Different methods and sources of information have been proposed in the literature to study the processing of language and, in particular, instances of formulaic language such as multiword units. This article explores the possibility of using pause placement in writing process data to determine the likelihood that a multiword unit is processed as a whole in the mind. The data are texts produced by learners of English and corresponding keylog files…
Automatic retrieval of syntactic structures
The study of complex grammatical patterns tends to be neglected by corpus linguists, the main reason being that such phenomena are much more difficult to extract from a corpus than simple words or tags. I demonstrate in this article that, although the desirable parsed corpora and appropriate software are not always available, the retrieval of syntactic structures can be automated to a certain extent. A number of corpus-based grammatical analyses,…
Elephants Who Marry Mice are Very Unusual
This paper explores the use of the relative pronoun (who) with nonhuman animals. The paper looks at what dictionaries, an encyclopedia, grammars, publication manuals, newspapers, and news agencies say and do relative to this issue. In addition to investigating the views and practices of these authoritative publications, the study also searched a 100-million-word collection (corpus) of spoken and written English. The study found that while some re…
Errors and disfluencies in spoken corpora
In this introduction, we wish to provide a broad overview of errors and disfluencies, showing how they are defined â and distinguished from each other â in the literature, and what impact the corpus revolution has had on the study of these phenomena. We will also demonstrate the usefulness of investigating such items by examining some of the possible applications of the study of errors and disfluencies
Making sense of collostructional analysis
This paper looks at the ways of refining the technique of collostructional analysis, and more precisely multiple distinctive collexeme analysis, by taking word senses into account. It presents the main results of a sense-based multiple distinctive collexeme analysis of the non-finite verb slot of English periphrastic causative constructions and shows how these results compare with those of a lemma-based analysis of the same data. The study reveal…
At the interface of contact linguistics and second language acquisition research
This paper examines the possible interface between contact linguistics and second language acquisition research by comparing the institutionalized second-language varieties of English known as “New Englishes” and the foreign varieties of English called “Learner Englishes”. On the basis of corpus data representing several populations of various origins, it investigates four linguistic phenomena, ranging from syntax (embedded inversion) to lexis (p…
Nick C. Ellis, Ute Römer, and Matthew Brook O’Donnell
This book, published in the Language Learning Monograph Series, is the result of a long-lasting collaboration between three researchers, Nick Ellis, Ute Römer, and Matthew Brook O’Donnell, who come from different—but complementary—backgrounds: cognitive psychology, corpus linguistics, and computer science. This combined expertise shines through in each of the 10 chapters which, taken together, provide a comprehensive account of the use, acquisiti…
Using corpora to foster L2 construction learning
This paper adopts a construction grammar approach to test the efficiency of data‐driven learning (DDL) when applied to constructions. High‐intermediate learners of English as a foreign language took part in an experiment consisting, for each construction, in (i) a pre‐test, in which the learners had to produce as many sentences as possible illustrating the constructions, (ii) a DDL intervention, which involved various concordance‐based activities…
The Use of Online Writing Tools by Learners of English
This paper examines the use of online writing tools by French-speaking learners of English based on the analysis of screen recordings of a free composition task that come from the Process Corpus of English in Education, a process corpus of learner writing. The study charts learners’ use of online resources by investigating how often learners resort to tools, which tools they use, and what effect the use of tools has on their texts. Results show c…
One norm to rule them all? Corpus-derived norms in learner corpus research and foreign language teaching
This paper considers the issue of the norm in the context of learner corpus research and its implications for foreign language teaching. It seeks to answer three main questions: Does learner corpus research require a native norm? What corpus-derived norms are available and how do we choose? What do we do with these norms in the classroom? The first two questions are more research-oriented, reviewing the types of reference corpora that can be used…
From second language acquisition research to foreign language teaching through the prism of corpora
Corpus linguistics can be seen as a set of methods applicable to different branches of linguistics. This article deals with the application of corpus linguistics (including learner corpus research) to second language acquisition (SLA) research and foreign language teaching (FLT). It describes the existing links between these frameworks, arguing that the combinations usually work in pairs. By contrast, the concept of corpus-based theory-to-practic…
Constrained communication in EFL and ESL
This study relies on the constrained communication framework to compare the use of embedded inversion in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and English as a Second Language (ESL). It is based on several (sub)corpora of EFL and ESL, but also reference corpora of native English, which differ along the constraint dimensions of language activation (monolingual/bilingual), proficiency (native users/proficient L2 users/learners), and modality (speech/…
A Corpus Study of Dyslexic University Students’ L2 Writing Processes
Second/foreign language (L2) writing is a critical skill for university students, and one that has attracted a great deal of attention in the literature on academic writing. Yet, one aspect that has received relatively less attention so far is the writing processes of language learners with dyslexia in this context. This study investigates the L2 writing processes of high-functioning dyslexic university students compared to their non-dyslexic cou…
The Processing of Multiword Units by Learners of English
Different methods and sources of information have been proposed in the literature to study the processing of language and, in particular, instances of formulaic language such as multiword units. This article explores the possibility of using pause placement in writing process data to determine the likelihood that a multiword unit is processed as a whole in the mind. The data are texts produced by learners of English and corresponding keylog files…
Corpus Analysis of Learner Language
Researchers are increasingly applying corpus techniques to study learner language. This entry provides an overview of such techniques and research designs, focusing specifically on those that are directly relevant to the study of learner production. We also cover domains within which most learner corpus research has been carried out. Such domains include lexis, phraseology, grammar, and linguistic complexity.
Reassessing the Learner Englishes–New Englishes Continuum
This study reexamines Learner Englishes (LEs)–New Englishes (NEs) continuum by considering intervarietal variation, mode differences, and multiple linguistic levels. Relying on comparable written and spoken corpus data, we investigate the valency patterns and senses of the verb TAKE across two LEs (Mainland Chinese English (MCE) and Belgian French-speaking English (BFE)) and two NEs (Singapore English (SgE) and Hong Kong English (HKE)) within the…
Second and foreign language learners
Aims: This study investigates the possible effect of language exposure on the use of multiword units, and more precisely phrasal verbs with up . It compares two learner populations that receive different types and amounts of input, namely, learners of English as a second language, who get exposed to English in various everyday contexts, and learners of English as a foreign language, whose main source of exposure to English is limited to language …
Corpus Linguistics to Tackle the Learning and Teaching of Multiword Units
Aims and Objectives: The article aims to show that corpora have made it possible to expand the field of phraseology and gain a better understanding of multiword units, including in foreign or second language learning and teaching. At the same time, however, it argues that corpora cannot answer all questions related to multiword units in and for learners and it therefore pleads for the combination of corpora with other sources of information. Appr…
Computer Science (13 works) · Linguistics (13 works) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (7 works) · Natural language processing (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (6 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (6 works)