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

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 a...

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Autor: Kisselev, Olesya
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)
Repositorio:Bakhtiniana
Idioma:portugués
inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/55747
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/bakhtiniana/article/view/55747
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Corpus linguistics
Learner corpus research
Corpus-based research
Russian language corpora
Second language acquisition
Heritage language acquisition
Linguística de corpus
Pesquisa de corpus de aprendizes
Сorpora de língua russa
Aquisição de segunda língua
Aquisição de língua de herança
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Sumario: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.