Since the development of the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), which Gass et
al.(1998: 409) situate in the 1960s or 1970s, use has been made of authentic data …

Learner corpora have generally focused on intermediate and advanced learners/users.
Corpora of beginners are rare but just as important. Second Language Acquisition (SLA) …

of the latest developments in technology-enhanced learning and the processing of
languages for specific purposes. It combines theoretical and applied research from an …

With low inter-annotator agreement and large time consumption, phonetic annotation of non-
native speech is complicated. However, having a large-scale non-native speech corpus with …

We announce the release of the CROWDED CORPUS: a pair of speech corpora collected
via crowdsourcing, containing a native speaker corpus of English (CROWDED_ENGLISH) …

In this paper, we study the intonational patterns observed in learners' productions in order to
evaluate what motivates the deviations observed: systemic differences between the learners' …

Identifying cognitive fluency as a learner's ability to efficiently plan and produce speech
necessitates considerations of how speech production occurs. One strand of research in …

This thesis describes unexpected constructions based on THIS and THAT by French and
Spanish learners of English. Chapter 1 raises the issue of the study of THIS and THAT as …

For most teachers of English in an academic context, the scope of teaching and learning oral
English may well turn into a brain teaser, as there are many methodological, theoretical and …

We present a method for speech corpus collection via crowdsourcing. The target corpora
feature [i] native speakers of English (CROWDISENG) and [ii] German-English bilinguals …