Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner by Prof. Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee, Prof. Dr. Marianne Hundt

By Prof. Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee, Prof. Dr. Marianne Hundt

The articles during this quantity are meant to bridge what Sridhar and Sridhar (1986) have referred to as the 'paradigm hole' among conventional SLA learn at the one hand and learn into institutionalised second-language forms in former colonial territories at the different. in view that either learner Englishes and second-language types are usually non-native types of English that emerge in language touch occasions, it really is excessive time that they're defined and in comparison on an empirical foundation that allows you to draw conceptual and theoretical conclusions in regards to their shape, functionality and acquisition. the current selection of articles locations distinctive emphasis on empirical facts bought from large-scale analyses of computerised corpora of learner Englishes (such because the overseas Corpus of Learner English) and of second-language forms of English (such because the overseas Corpus of English). It addresses questions similar to ‘Are the phenomena we discover in ESL and EFL forms beneficial properties or errors?’ or ‘How universal and universal are beneficial properties throughout touch different types of English?’

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