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Understanding Learner Talk About Writing: The Second Language Peer Response (L2PR) Corpus

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In the next three chapters (Part IV, Chaps. 11, 12, and 13), we examine spoken learner language by exploring the patterns of social interaction in a corpus of university-level ESL students’ spoken feedback to each other about their writing in a first-year composition course, as well as by triangulating corpus findings with student writing and student interviews. This task, called peer response, is widely used by practitioners and has been thoroughly examined by language learning theorists and researchers. The current chapter reviews relevant literature on learner interaction from SLA and L2 Writing traditions, and argues for a corpus-based approach to further examine these interactions. It also describes the compilation and composition of Roberson’s (2015) Second Language Peer Response (L2PR) Corpus.

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  1. Applied Linguistics and ESL, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Eric Friginal

  2. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA

    Joseph J. Lee

  3. Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Brittany Polat

  4. Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York, USA

    Audrey Roberson

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Friginal, E., Lee, J.J., Polat, B., Roberson, A. (2017). Understanding Learner Talk About Writing: The Second Language Peer Response (L2PR) Corpus. In: Exploring Spoken English Learner Language Using Corpora. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59900-7_11

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