Russian Learner Corpora Research: State of the Art and Call for Action

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Corpus linguistics, Learner corpus research, Corpus-based research, Russian language corpora, Second language acquisition, Heritage language acquisition

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With the increase in availability and user-friendliness of Russian language corpora and corpus-analytic tools, the field of Russian language education has recently begun to employ corpus linguistics as an approach to understanding the dynamic of language development in users of Russian as a second and heritage language. The paper provides a brief overview of the current state of learner corpus research as a field and explores the benefits of application of corpus linguistics methods and instruments to the study of Russian. The paper reviews pertinent issues in corpora design, compilation, and annotation; offers an overview of the existing Russian language corpora and reports on the currently available corpus-based studies of Russian as a second/heritage language. The paper concludes with a call to the field to explore the benefit of corpus-based approaches to the study of Russian.

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Kisselev, O. (2022). Russian Learner Corpora Research: State of the Art and Call for Action . Bakhtiniana. Revista De Estudos Do Discurso, 18(1), Port. 8–31 / Eng. 8. Retrieved from https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/bakhtiniana/article/view/55747

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