Approaching Language Transfer through Text Classification: Explorations in the Detection-based Approach

✍ Scribed by Scott Jarvis (editor); Scott A. Crossley (editor)

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 196
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book explains the detection-based approach to investigating crosslinguistic influence and illustrates the value of the approach through a collection of five empirical studies that use the approach to quantify, evaluate, and isolate the subtle and complex influences of learners’ native-language backgrounds on their English writing.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
1. The Detection-Based Approach: An Overview
2. Detecting L2 Writers’ L1s on the Basis of Their Lexical Styles
3. Exploring the Role of n-Grams in L1 Identification
4. Detecting the First Language of Second Language Writers Using Automated Indices of Cohesion, Lexical Sophistication, Syntactic Complexity and Conceptual Knowledge
5. Error Patterns and Automatic L1 Identification
6. The Comparative and Combined Contributions of n-Grams, Coh-Metrix Indices and Error Types in the L1 Classification of Learner Texts
7. Detection-Based Approaches: Methods, Theories and Applications

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