Analysing Learner Language

By R. Ellis, Gary Barkhuizen. Asian Journal of English Language Teaching, 2005

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This book provides a clear and accessible introduction to the main methods of analysing samples of learner language. It examines the theoretical and research bases for the different methods, and thereby serves as an introduction to the field of second language acquisition research. The book is intended for students on postgraduate courses in TESOL or Applied Linguistics, or for teachers wishing to do action research to find out more about how learners learn language.

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Citations in the corpus

• The Development of Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in Second Language Performance: A Longitudinal Study (2017, background): “Ferrari’s (2012) conclusion of a trade-off effect between accuracy and complexity was based on similar measures without controlling for the increasing length of utterances over time.”
• TASK REPETITION AND SECOND LANGUAGE SPEECH PROCESSING (2016, methodology): “Speech rate was then calculated as the number of pruned syllables per second from the fi rst syllable after the prompt sentence to the end the task performance (Ellis & Barkhuizen, 2005 ).”
• Learner-generated content and engagement in second language task performance (2017, methodology): “All performances were transcribed into Analysis of Speech (AS) units following Foster, Tonkyn, and Wigglesworth (2000), and pruned to exclude filled pauses, false starts, hesitations, and reformulation (Ellis & Barkhuizen, 2005).”
• Examining the impact of flipped classroom on writing complexity, accuracy, and fluency: a case of EFL students (2020, methodology): “Following Ellis and Barkhuizen (2005), complexity is referred to as the learners’ use of a wide range of structures which might not have been fully internalised by the learners.”
• The practicality and relevance of second language critical pedagogy (2009, background): “The last issue I want to tackle is the role of statements of the broader outcomes of educational programs of the sort I have been discussing (see Ellis & Barkhuizen 2005: 279).”
• Task-Based Learner Production: A Substantive and Methodological Review (2016, background): “Complexity traditionally indicates L2 learners’ ability to use a range of sophisticated structures and vocabulary in the L2 (Bulté & Housen, 2012; Ellis & Barkhuizen, 2005).”
• Task preference, affective response, and engagement in L2 use in a US university context (2017, background): “…the floor from the speaker (Lambertz, 2011), (4) sequences of negotiation of meaning were defined as ‘conversational exchanges that arise when interlocutors seek to prevent a communicative impasse occurring or to remedy an actual impasse that has arisen’ (Ellis & Barkhuizen, 2005, pp. 166–167).”
• Inter-cultural contact and flow in a task-based Japanese EFL classroom (2017, methodology): “Spoken output was coded using pruned transcripts as it was believed to provide a better measure of learners’ speech production than unpruned transcripts (Ellis & Barkhuizen, 2005).”
• Assessing Grammar: Assessing Grammar (2004, background): “Ellis and Barkhuizen (2005) identified the following types of complexity depending on the feature being analyzed: (1) interactional (e.g., number of turns per speaker), (2) propositional (e.g., the density of the information unit), (3) functional (e.g., number of functions expressed), (4)…”
• Pair versus individual writing: Effects on fluency, complexity and accuracy (2009, background): “Although Ellis and Barkhuizen (2005) point out that global and local measures of accuracy tend to correlate closely, global measures were selected based on Skehan and Foster’s (1999) argument that global units represent a more realistic measure of accuracy.”
• A Study of Teacher Talk in Interactions in English Classes (2010, background): “In recent years, teacher talk has drawn more attention of scholars and researchers world wide, such as Lindholm-Leary (2001), Seedhouse (2004), Berlin (2005), Ellis & Barkhuizen (2005), Wright (2005), Robinson (2006).”