Sylviane Granger
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 166977 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sylviane Granger |
| PRENOMES | Sylviane |
| SOBRENOME | Granger |
| ASSINATURA | GRANGER S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | UCLouvain |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0047-2142 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Learner Corpora of Language for Specific Purposes
Over the past decade, several new learner corpora of language for specific purposes (LSP) have been compiled. In this entry, we review the various types of LSP learner corpora that can be used for research and teaching purposes, including language samples collected from LSP classes and disciplinary writing. We then examine the typical studies conducted using these corpora, identifying several important research gaps. Finally, we briefly review th…
A multi-corpus approach to the placement of however
While in recent years, many studies have been devoted to the frequency of connectors in second-language (L2) writing, the issue of connector placement has received scant attention. In this study we focus on the highly frequent and mobile connector however to identify L2 learners’ placement preferences. The study aims to contribute to the current debate around the notions of nativeness/non-nativeness and expertise/noviceness, and for this purpose …
Even our hardest prisoners are being given free yoga lessons so they can find inner peace”
Yoga programs are a growing part of daily life in prisons around the globe. Yet, scholars have not deeply considered the extent to which mass media report upon, or the ways in which they frame, these interventions. We address this absence through an analysis of English-language newspaper written reportage on prison yoga from 1981 until 2022, comprising a total of 1448 unique articles originating from 31 countries. After a brief analysis of geogra…
Stance in press releases versus business news
Press releases represent a hybrid business genre, which combines an informational and a promotional communicative purpose. The objective of the study is to assess the extent to which this duality is reflected in the language used, and more particularly in the expression of stance, by comparing corporate press releases with another business genre that is essentially informational, namely business news reporting. The focus is on lexical bundles, as…
Is core vocabulary a friend or foe of academic writing? Single-word vs multi-word uses of thing
Core vocabulary items (e.g. thing, way) are often viewed as the enemy of effective academic writing, and style guides and textbooks often advise against using them. However, their bad reputation seems to stem from a single-word perspective that ignores the rich phraseological units that such items tend to figure in. In this study, we focus on the core vocabulary lemma thing to investigate the extent to which a phraseological approach can redeem i…
Learner Corpora
Learner corpora are electronic collections of natural or near‐natural data produced by foreign or second language learners, designed on the basis of strict criteria. They can be categorized along the following three dimensions: generic versus local, cross‐sectional versus longitudinal, and spoken versus written. A valuable addition to the data types used in applied linguistics, they are all the more useful when annotated with linguistic informati…
From General to Learners’ Bilingual Dictionaries
General bilingual dictionaries tend to cater for the needs of all users, i.e. both native and non-native speakers of either language. To maximize their usefulness for non-native users, they need to be ‘learnerized’, i.e. adapted to the needs of specific learner groups. Based on the observation that learners’ phraseological needs are acute and only imperfectly met by existing general bilingual dictionaries, the current study suggests ways of impro…
Electronic lexicography goes local
Writing idiomatic academic texts in English is a challenge faced by an increasing number of international students and scholars. In this article, we present a web-based dictionary-cum-writing aid tool, the Louvain English for Academic Purposes Dictionary, which aims to address the attested needs of non-native writers of English, with a particular focus on the phraseological patterning of academic words. First, we present the general design of the…
Quantifying the development of phraseological competence in L2 English writing
Language for Specific Purposes Learner Corpora
Learner corpora are electronic collections of (near‐)natural foreign or second‐languagelearner (L2) language assembled according to explicit design criteria (Granger, 2008).
Learner Corpora
Learner corpora are electronic collections of language data produced by L2 learners, that is, second or foreign‐language learners. This relatively new resource is of great relevance for both second language acquisition (SLA) research and foreign‐language teaching (FLT).
Phraseology
Disentangling the phraseological web
Although phraseology has recently begun to establish itself as a field in its own right, this process is being hindered by two main factors: the highly variable and wide-ranging scope of the field and the vast and confusing terminology associated with it. This chapter tackles these two issues successively in an attempt to disentangle the ‘phraseological web’. We first draw up a clear distinction between two major approaches to the study of multi-…
Computer Learner Corpora and Monolingual Learners’ Dictionaries
Edited Volumes on Corpus Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics in North America offers concrete, diverse samples of corpus-based scholarship to readers desiring a well-rounded introduction to corpus linguistics. This book, which presents selected papers from a 1999 symposium (the first corpus linguistics symposium in North America), is particularly useful to readers who are considering using corpus linguistics as a tool in their research. However, language teachers who are interested in us…
The International Corpus of Learner English
Sylviane Granger, The International Corpus of Learner English: A New Resource for Foreign Language Learning and Teaching and Second Language Acquisition Research, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Autumn, 2003), pp. 538-546
Learner English on Computer
Prefabricated Patterns in Advanced EFL Writing
Since the mid-I98os, the use of prefabricated language (‘prefabs’) has become a major focus of interest in EFL, arguably for three main reasons. First, the emergence of the concept of lexico-grammar, inspired by Halliday and Sinclair, has promoted the syntagmatic investigation of lexis. The traditional association between syntagmatics and grammar, on the one hand, and paradigmatics and lexis, on the other, which was challenged by Michael Halliday…
Computer-aided error analysis
Connector usage in the English essay writing of native and non-native EFL speakers of English
In this study we focus on cohesion in discourse, and more specifically on connector usage. Acknowledging the importance of combining a top-down and a bottom-up approach in the study of discourse, we adopt a bottom-up approach which is favoured by our methodology. In the first section we evaluate previous studies of learner connector usage and the literature on contrastive French-English connector usage. We hypothesize that we will discover a gene…
The Learner Corpus
A report on ICLE (the International Corpus of Learner English), a project that collects written work from, and analyses the usage of, advanced adult EFL learners
Cognates
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J. Van Roey
The be + past Participle Construction in Spoken English, with Special Emphasis on the Passive
Connector usage in the English essay writing of native and non-native EFL speakers of English
In this study we focus on cohesion in discourse, and more specifically on connector usage. Acknowledging the importance of combining a top-down and a bottom-up approach in the study of discourse, we adopt a bottom-up approach which is favoured by our methodology. In the first section we evaluate previous studies of learner connector usage and the literature on contrastive French-English connector usage. We hypothesize that we will discover a gene…
The International Corpus of Learner English
Sylviane Granger, The International Corpus of Learner English: A New Resource for Foreign Language Learning and Teaching and Second Language Acquisition Research, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Autumn, 2003), pp. 538-546
Computer-aided error analysis
From General to Learners’ Bilingual Dictionaries
General bilingual dictionaries tend to cater for the needs of all users, i.e. both native and non-native speakers of either language. To maximize their usefulness for non-native users, they need to be ‘learnerized’, i.e. adapted to the needs of specific learner groups. Based on the observation that learners’ phraseological needs are acute and only imperfectly met by existing general bilingual dictionaries, the current study suggests ways of impro…
The be + past Participle Construction in Spoken English, with Special Emphasis on the Passive
J. Van Roey
Cognates
Preview this article: Cognates, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/itl.99-100.03gra-1.gif
The Learner Corpus
A report on ICLE (the International Corpus of Learner English), a project that collects written work from, and analyses the usage of, advanced adult EFL learners
Connector usage in the English essay writing of native and non-native EFL speakers of English
In this study we focus on cohesion in discourse, and more specifically on connector usage. Acknowledging the importance of combining a top-down and a bottom-up approach in the study of discourse, we adopt a bottom-up approach which is favoured by our methodology. In the first section we evaluate previous studies of learner connector usage and the literature on contrastive French-English connector usage. We hypothesize that we will discover a gene…
Prefabricated Patterns in Advanced EFL Writing
Since the mid-I98os, the use of prefabricated language (‘prefabs’) has become a major focus of interest in EFL, arguably for three main reasons. First, the emergence of the concept of lexico-grammar, inspired by Halliday and Sinclair, has promoted the syntagmatic investigation of lexis. The traditional association between syntagmatics and grammar, on the one hand, and paradigmatics and lexis, on the other, which was challenged by Michael Halliday…
Computer-aided error analysis
Learner English on Computer
Edited Volumes on Corpus Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics in North America offers concrete, diverse samples of corpus-based scholarship to readers desiring a well-rounded introduction to corpus linguistics. This book, which presents selected papers from a 1999 symposium (the first corpus linguistics symposium in North America), is particularly useful to readers who are considering using corpus linguistics as a tool in their research. However, language teachers who are interested in us…
The International Corpus of Learner English
Sylviane Granger, The International Corpus of Learner English: A New Resource for Foreign Language Learning and Teaching and Second Language Acquisition Research, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Autumn, 2003), pp. 538-546
Computer Learner Corpora and Monolingual Learners’ Dictionaries
Phraseology
Disentangling the phraseological web
Although phraseology has recently begun to establish itself as a field in its own right, this process is being hindered by two main factors: the highly variable and wide-ranging scope of the field and the vast and confusing terminology associated with it. This chapter tackles these two issues successively in an attempt to disentangle the ‘phraseological web’. We first draw up a clear distinction between two major approaches to the study of multi-…
Language for Specific Purposes Learner Corpora
Learner corpora are electronic collections of (near‐)natural foreign or second‐languagelearner (L2) language assembled according to explicit design criteria (Granger, 2008).
Learner Corpora
Learner corpora are electronic collections of language data produced by L2 learners, that is, second or foreign‐language learners. This relatively new resource is of great relevance for both second language acquisition (SLA) research and foreign‐language teaching (FLT).
Quantifying the development of phraseological competence in L2 English writing
Electronic lexicography goes local
Writing idiomatic academic texts in English is a challenge faced by an increasing number of international students and scholars. In this article, we present a web-based dictionary-cum-writing aid tool, the Louvain English for Academic Purposes Dictionary, which aims to address the attested needs of non-native writers of English, with a particular focus on the phraseological patterning of academic words. First, we present the general design of the…
From General to Learners’ Bilingual Dictionaries
General bilingual dictionaries tend to cater for the needs of all users, i.e. both native and non-native speakers of either language. To maximize their usefulness for non-native users, they need to be ‘learnerized’, i.e. adapted to the needs of specific learner groups. Based on the observation that learners’ phraseological needs are acute and only imperfectly met by existing general bilingual dictionaries, the current study suggests ways of impro…
Learner Corpora
Learner corpora are electronic collections of natural or near‐natural data produced by foreign or second language learners, designed on the basis of strict criteria. They can be categorized along the following three dimensions: generic versus local, cross‐sectional versus longitudinal, and spoken versus written. A valuable addition to the data types used in applied linguistics, they are all the more useful when annotated with linguistic informati…
Stance in press releases versus business news
Press releases represent a hybrid business genre, which combines an informational and a promotional communicative purpose. The objective of the study is to assess the extent to which this duality is reflected in the language used, and more particularly in the expression of stance, by comparing corporate press releases with another business genre that is essentially informational, namely business news reporting. The focus is on lexical bundles, as…
Is core vocabulary a friend or foe of academic writing? Single-word vs multi-word uses of thing
Core vocabulary items (e.g. thing, way) are often viewed as the enemy of effective academic writing, and style guides and textbooks often advise against using them. However, their bad reputation seems to stem from a single-word perspective that ignores the rich phraseological units that such items tend to figure in. In this study, we focus on the core vocabulary lemma thing to investigate the extent to which a phraseological approach can redeem i…
Learner Corpora of Language for Specific Purposes
Over the past decade, several new learner corpora of language for specific purposes (LSP) have been compiled. In this entry, we review the various types of LSP learner corpora that can be used for research and teaching purposes, including language samples collected from LSP classes and disciplinary writing. We then examine the typical studies conducted using these corpora, identifying several important research gaps. Finally, we briefly review th…
A multi-corpus approach to the placement of however
While in recent years, many studies have been devoted to the frequency of connectors in second-language (L2) writing, the issue of connector placement has received scant attention. In this study we focus on the highly frequent and mobile connector however to identify L2 learners’ placement preferences. The study aims to contribute to the current debate around the notions of nativeness/non-nativeness and expertise/noviceness, and for this purpose …
Even our hardest prisoners are being given free yoga lessons so they can find inner peace”
Yoga programs are a growing part of daily life in prisons around the globe. Yet, scholars have not deeply considered the extent to which mass media report upon, or the ways in which they frame, these interventions. We address this absence through an analysis of English-language newspaper written reportage on prison yoga from 1981 until 2022, comprising a total of 1448 unique articles originating from 31 countries. After a brief analysis of geogra…
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