摘要：In recent years, corpus linguistic methods have gained an increasingly central
place in English language teaching (ELT). For instance, students use a range of
materials that draw on corpus linguistics, from modern learners’ dictionaries to
concordances produced for the purpose of data-driven learning. The overwhelming
majority of all English-language corpora used in this way consist of nativespeaker
English, but recent findings have shown that the compilation and analysis
of learner corpora are also relevant from a pedagogical perspective (see e.g.
Granger 1998), regarding fields such as materials design. There are also indications
that students may benefit from analysing learner English as a complement
to looking at native-speaker output. However, there is a need for studies of
learner English that help to open up the field in this respect. Computer learner
corpora, second language acquisition and foreign language teaching helps to
satisfy this need. It is a collection of contributions intended both to help
researchers assess the relevance of research on computer learner corpora for second
language acquisition (SLA) theory, as well as ELT practice, and to “give
practical insight to researchers who may be considering compiling a corpus of
learner data or embarking on learner corpus research” (p. vii); this is a broad
scope for a single volume, something which I shall return to towards the end of
this review.
