Learners of English and Conversational Proficiency

Pascale Gouteraux (1)

1 CLILLAC-ARP (EA_3967) - Centre de Linguistique Inter-langues, de Lexicologie, de Linguistique Anglaise et de Corpus

This study focuses on the inter-relatedness of fluency and complexity as explanatory factors and criteria for the assessment of conversational proficiency within the framework of two current cognitive models. It has been carried out on a cross-sectional corpus of 28 one-to-one conversations between native English teaching assistants and French English as Foreign Language (EFL) university students from the DIDEROT-LONGDALE project.

Mots clés: Diderot; Longdale learner corpus; conversational proficiency; learner corpus; psycholinguistic parameters

Domaines: Linguistique

Pascale Gouteraux. Learners of English and Conversational Proficiency. Granger, S.; Gilquin, G.; Meunier, F. Twenty Years of Learner Corpus Research: Looking back, moving ahead, Corpora and Language in Use Proceedings of the First Learner Corpus Research Conference (LCR 2011), Presses Universitaires de Louvain, pp.197-210, 2013. ⟨hal-01233885⟩