Indonesian Language for Foreign Speakers (BIPA) is Indonesian language learning
intended for foreigners. The aim of this research was to examine the vocabulary …

This collection brings together the editors' previous research with new work on the Register-
Functional (RF) approach to grammatical complexity, offering a unified theoretical account …

This book provides a practical and extensive guide for the International Corpus Network of
Asian Learners of English (ICNALE), a unique dataset including more than 15,000 samples …

As written language contains more complex syntax than spoken language, exposure to
written language provides opportunities for children to experience language input different …

Corpus linguistic methods can provide detailed and statistically robust information about
how children's written language develops as they progress through their education. Such …

Corpus Linguistics for Writing Development provides a practical introduction to using
corpora in the study of first and second language learners' written language over time and …

Complex noun phrases (NP) are central to mature academic writing and often a focus of
explicit teaching. The National Curriculum in England, for example, requires specific …

This study describes academic literacy development during mid-adolescence, when
learners need to adjust to the demands of academic discourse as a gateway to linguistic …

This paper tests three hypotheses about written vocabulary in child L2 English. Specifically,
as children mature,(1) the mean frequency values of the nouns they use increase;(2) the …

Previous syntactic complexity (SC) research on L2 Chinese has overlooked a range of
Chinese-specific structures and fine-grained indices. This study, utilizing a syntactically …