Padua, 22nd-24th September 2022
6th Learner Corpus Research Conference
Thursday 22 September 2022
Registration
Opening (Room 1)

08:00 – 09:00
09:00 – 09:30
09:30 –10:30

Hilary Nesi: Learner corpus research: Some problems, some questions, and some possible answers
Chair: Sylvie De Cock
Room 1

Coffee break (cloister)

10:30 – 11:00

Academic Writing
Chair: Hilde Hasselgård
Room 1

Spoken and written learner corpora
Chair: Stefania Spina
Room 3

11:00 – 11:30

Maïté Dupont and Sylviane Granger.
Connector placement in EFL learnerwriting: Focus on 'however'Karin Puga. F0 range in L2 discourse as evidence
for the existence of a prosody interlanguage
system

11:30 – 12:00

Joseph Lee and Robert Bern. Changing
patterns of linking adverbials in L2
university student writing

Annely Tomson. Acquisition of Norwegian as asecond language: What are the differences
between the written and spoken language of thelearners?

12:00 – 12:30

Arianna Bienati and Jennifer-Carmen
Frey. Development of explicit causal
connectives in Italian L1 and L2 student
writing: A comparison of argumentative
texts from lower and upper secondaryschool.

Monika Kavalir and Gašper Ilc. Use of English
negation in the Slovene subcorpus of ICLE

1Complexity and assessment
Chair: Nicolas Ballier
Room 4Thomas Gaillat. Exploring theoperationalisation of L2 microsystems asfunctional complexity metrics for proficiency
assessment
Agnieszka Lenko-Szymanska, Piotr Pezik, andMichal Adamczyk. Phraseology in theassessment of L2 writing
Olesya Kisselev, Rossina Soyan, Dmitrii
Pastushenkov, and Jason Merrill. Lexical
complexity development in L2 Russian textsand correlations with curricular levels andraters’ scores

Lunch (cloister)

12:30 –14:0014:00 – 14:30

14:30 – 15:00

Statistics in LCR
Chair: Ilmari Ivaska
Room 1
Stefan Th. Gries. Most dispersion
measures do not measure dispersion, andthe implications of that for LCR
Stefan Th. Gries and Magali Paquot.
Association measures in learner corpus
research: Problems and pointers forimprovement

16:00 – 16:30

17:00 – 17:30

17:30 – 18:00

18:00 – 18:30

Roger Gee, M. Karen Jogan, and Kathleen S.
Jogan. Developmental use of prenominal noun
modifiers by Spanish L1 EFL teachers

Complexity
Chair: Tove Larsson
Room 4Nathan Vandeweerd. The effect ofphraseological complexity on ratings of oral
versus written French proficiency
Akira Murakami. Towards more appropriate
modeling of (and with) linguistic complexity
indices (WIP)

POSTER SESSION (cloister)
Coffee break (cloister)

15.00 – 16.00

16:30 – 17:00

Phraseology
Chair: Francesca Coccetta
Room 3Elnaz Kia and Fernando Rubio. Lexical bundles
and L2 Spanish writing development: A case ofdual language immersion

Academic writing
Chair: Fiona Dalziel
Room 1
Niwat Wuttisrisiriporn. Investigating
effects of L1 and discipline on syntactic
complexity in master’s theses andresearch articles
Qiuyi Sun. Modality in Chinese EFL
learners’ academic writing: Fromsemantic meaning to disciplinary
variation
Maggie Charles, Ahmed Halil, MichaelJenkins, and Karin Whiteside. What gets
funded? A learner corpus study of grant
proposal summaries by L1 Arabic Syrian
academics
Tereza Guziurová. Code glosses in L2
learner writing: Reformulation andexemplification in master’s theses byCzech university students

SyntaxChair: Sara Gesuato
Room 3Dogus Can Oksuz, Dora Alexopoulou, KateDerkach, and Ianthi Maria Tsimpli. The influenceof L1 typology on the acquisition of the L2 English
articles: A large-scale learner corpus study

Complexity
Chair: Sylviane Granger
Room 4Jessica Tayeh and Nicolas Ballier. Automaticclassification of Arabic learners of English
based on complexity metrics

Marlén Izquierdo and Naroa Zubillaga. Empiricaltranslation studies: Contrasting learnertranslations in a diglossic environment

Elizabeth Bear, Xiaobin Chen, and Detmar
Meurers. Linguistic style in a second
language: Exploring cross-task individual
differences in complexity in a large-scale
corpusSangeun Kim. Multidimensional analysis ofsyntactic complexity development in L2 learnerwriting in an American university EAP
programme

Ilmari Ivaska. Register effects andmorphosyntactic complexity affecting the useof the preterite construction in advanced L2
FinnishAlessia Iurato. Compiling a corpus of written andspoken L2 Chinese: Combining pragmatic-anderror-annotation to study the Chinese 是shì…的de cleft construction
2Stefania Spina. Task effects on phraseologicalcomplexity in learners’ written and oral
production: A structural equation modelingstudy

18.30 – 20.00

Apericena (Welcome reception with light dinner and entertainment - cloister)Friday 23 September 2022
08:30 – 09:00

Registration

09:00 – 10:00

Anke Lüdeling: Explorations of variability: Evidence from L1 and L2 corpora of German
Chair: Marcus Callies
Room 1

Coffee break (cloister)

10:00 – 10:30

10:30 – 11:00

11:00 – 11:30

11:30 – 12:00

Innovative approaches in LCR
Chair: Maggie Charles
Room 1
Magali Paquot, Rachel Rubin, andNathan Vandeweerd. Introducing
the CLAP project: Adaptive
comparative judgment as acommunity-based solution forenriching learner corpora withcrowdsourced L2 proficiency
assessment
Elen Le Foll. Teaching pre-service
teachers to create corpus-informedmaterials: The effectiveness ofdifferent types of tasks in an elearning setting
Sharon Hartle, Giorgia Andreolli,and Emanuela Tenca. Visual
Thinking Strategies (VTS) in online
EFL learner discussions: Creating a
micro-corpus of spoken learnerdiscourse for qualitative analysis

Pragmatics
Chair: Francesca Coccetta
Room 3

Francesca Poli. "Let's say maybe
it's our Italian culture": Expressionsof uncertainty in Italian learners ofEnglish

Sara Gesuato and Elisabetta
Pavan. Students’ requestive emails
to faculty – pragmatic proficiency
in elicited and spontaneous Italian
L1 and English L2Sepideh Daghbandan. A
comparison between colloquial
Persian used by English-speaking
learners of Persian and Iranian
speakers of Persian: Insights from alearner corpus-based study

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Room 4

Software demonstration session
Chair: Akira Murakami
Room 5Jennifer-Carmen Frey, Aivars
Glaznieks, Maria Stopfner, Lorenzo
Zanasi, and Lionel Nicolas. LEONIDE:A longitudinal trilingual corpus ofyoung learners of Italian, German andEnglish
Madalina Chitez, Cosmin Striletchi,and Karla Csürös. Meeting ROGER: An
open-access bilingual corpus searchplatform
Stefania Spina, Irene Fioravanti,
Luciana Forti, Valentino Santucci,
Angela Scerra, and Fabio Zanda. TheCELI corpus: A new resource toanalyse L2 Italian12:00 – 12:30

Kathrin Kircili. Non-canonicalsyntax in learner language:
Between language transfer,language universals andidiosyncrasies

14:30 – 15:00

Cristóbal Lozano and Nobuo Ignacio
López-Sako. Demonstration of theCEDEL2 (version 2) interface: A multiL1 corpus of L2 Spanish

LUNCH (cloister)

12:30 –14:00

14:00 – 14:30

Nicola Brocca, Maria K. Rudigier,and Valentin A. Spielthenner. Acorpus-based approach in foreignlanguage teacher education: A casestudy on politeness in instantmessages in Italian L2 by
Germanophone learners

Error tagging
Chair: Luciana Forti
Room 1
Elisa Di Nuovo, Bianca Maria De
Paolis, Cristina Bosco, and Elisa
Corino. Error identification,normalization and tagging: Threeinter-annotator agreement casestudies in a picture-elicited learnercorpusLisa Rudebeck and Gunlög
Sundberg. On the other side of theerror tag: The nature and functionsof the corrected texts

Metadata
Chair: Erik Castello
Room 3Grammar
Chair: Karin Whiteside
Room 4

Marcus Callies. Challenges in theannotation and analysis of learnercorporaKateryna Derkach andDora Alexopoulou. The
differential effect ofspecificity on definite andindefinite article accuracy
in learner English

Alexander König, Jennifer-CarmenFrey, Egon W. Stemle, Aivars
Glaznieks, and Magali Paquot.
Towards standardizing LCR
metadata

Hilde Hasselgård.
Adverbial modification ofadjectives in young
writers' English (EL1 andEL2)

Software demonstration session
Chair: Monika KavalirRoom 5
Elena Volodina, Therese Lindström
Tiedemann, and Yousuf Ali
Mohammed. Swedish L2 profile – Atool for exploring L2 data

Nicolas Ballier and Helen
Yannakoudakis. Towards
crowdsourcing research for learner
keylogging data

WORK IN PROGRESS (WIP) SESSION

15:05 – 15:35

WIP1
Chair: Nathan Vandeweerd
Room 1
Sylvie De Cock. ‘Do you love me’:
Interrogatives in learner speech in

WIP2
Chair: Anke Lüdeling
Room 3
Graham Burton and Maria Cristina Gatti. English
in a bilingual German-Italian community:

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WIP3
Chair: Caroline Clark
Room 4Masatoshi Sugiura, Akiko Eguchi, MarikoAbe, Remi Murao, Takashi Koizumi, andLINDSEI and in the Trinity Lancaster
corpusRaffaella Bottini. Lexical complexity in L2
English speech: Exploring monologic anddialogic tasks in the Trinity Lancaster
corpusCollecting data and investigating learner variables
in creating the EdiCoMC corpus
Olga Lopopolo. The acquisition and use of theprogressive aspect by multilingual learners ofEnglish as L3: Preliminary results from alongitudinal learner corpus-based study

Barbora Bulantová. Measuring syntactic
complexity in L2 speech at advancedproficiency levels

Helena Wedig, Carola Strobl, and Jim J.J. Ureel.
Investigating connective use in L2 German: Acorpus study

Jen-Yu Li, Thomas Gaillat, and Elisabeth
Richard. Exploring the use of dependency
parsing in automatic erroneous
collocation extraction in learner English

Anna Shadrova. Lexical similarity in L1 and L2
German as evidence for the structure anddynamics of the lexicon

15:35 – 16:05

Jane Klavan. A multifactorial learner corpus
approach to genitive alternation in non-native
EnglishKordula De Kuthy and Detmar Meurers.
Extending experimental research on theeffectiveness of an intelligent tutoring
system: A corpus study systematicallyidentifying targeted language means inauthentic ESL student essays
Abdelhamid Ahmed, Xiao Zhang, andLameya Rezk.
A Corpus-Based Contrastive Analysis ofTransition Markers in L1 Arabic and L2 English
Argumentative Writing

Coffee break (cloister)

16:05 – 16:30

Chair: Nathan Vandeweerd
Room 1

16:30 – 17:00

Daisuke Abe. Using IPSyn to measure early L2
syntactic development

Zarah Weiss and Detmar Meurers. Howdo tasks impact the different domains ofL2 linguistic complexity? (FULL PAPER)

WIP4Chair: Elisa Corino
Room 3
Carla Quinci. “Today’s lesson was reallyinteresting”: Improving second-language learningand obtaining feedback through students’reflective Padlet posts

WIP5
Chair: Katherine Ackerley
Room 4
Eliane Lorenz. “So I’ll need English like good
English” – Functions and use of discourse
marker like in UAE English

Nida Dusturia. The use of connectors in spoken
and written argumentative texts of Indonesian
EFL learners: A corpus-based study

France Rousset and Anita Thomas. Corpora
as input and output: A fragile link inclassroom research

17:00 – 18:00

LCA General Assembly (Room 1)

18:15 – 19:30

Walking tour from Complesso Beato Pellegrino to the restaurant (with Serena Cecco and Franca Faccioli)

19:30

Conference DINNER (Ristorante Zairo, Prato della Valle, 51)
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Saturday, 24 September 2022
09:00 – 10:00

Silvia Bernardini: A marriage of two minds? Learner translation corpora in learner corpus research
Chair: Sylviane Granger
Room 1

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee break (cloister)

10:30 – 11:00

11:00 – 11:30

11:30 – 12:00

12:00 – 12:30

Writing development

Translation and contrastive approaches in LCR

Young learners/High school

Chair: Magali Paquot
Room 1
Tove Larsson, Tony Berber-Sardinha,
Bethany Gray, and Doug Biber. Exploring
early L2 writing development: A registerfunctional approach to grammaticalcomplexity

Chair: Carla Quinci
Room 3Chair: Marta Guarda
Room 4

Randi Reppen and Doug Biber. Studying
individual longitudinal development in a
corpus of ‘natural’ disciplinary writing
Doug Biber, Tove Larsson, Gregory R.
Hancock, Bethany Gray, and Randi
Reppen. Dimensions of grammaticalcomplexity in L1/L2 writing: A
comparative analysis of theory-basedmodelsHenrik Kaatari, Tove Larsson, Ying Wang,
Seda Acikara Eickhoff, and Pia Sundqvist.
Exploring the effect of target-language
extramural activities on students’ written
production

Ksenia Balakina. Splitting and joining sentencesin Italian-Russian inverse translation
Jorge Montaño and Ana Díaz-Negrillo. Does
mode affect referring expression selection? A
corpus-based study of advanced L1 Spanish-L2
English narratives

Aivars Glaznieks and Jennifer-Carmen Frey.
Syntactic variation in German weil-clauses: Acomparison between immersed and nonimmersed learners of German

Nobuo Ignacio López-Sako and Cristóbal Lozano.
Redundancy in subject anaphora resolution: Acorpus-based study of L1 Japanese learners of L2Spanish

Zarah Weiss, Nina Hicks, Detmar Meurers,
and Thomas Studer. Using linguistic
complexity to probe into genre differences?
Insights from the multilingual SWIKO learnercorpusTeresa Quesada and Cristóbal Lozano. Using two
comparable learner corpora to investigate theproduction of referring expressions
bidirectionally: L1 Spanish-L2 English vs. L1
English-L2 Spanish

Ingrid Kristine Hasund. Genres in young
learner EFL writing: A genre typology for theTRAWL (tracking written learner language)
corpus12:30 – 13:00

CLOSING (Room 1)

13:00 – 14:00

LUNCH (cloister)
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POSTERS
Bear Elizabeth, Bronson Hui, Haemanth Santhi Ponnusamy, Björn Rudzewitz, Xiaobin Chen, and Detmar Meurers. Using ICALL to collect spoken learnerdata in real-life conversation tasks
El Ayari Sarra. Sarramanka: An online tool for learner corpora analysis
Flores Hernández Ana Abigahil, and Pauline Moore. Mexican learner corpus: Designing and collecting a longitudinal spoken corpus of Mexican university
learners of English
Forti Luciana, Irene Fioravanti, and Fabio Zanda. Lexical complexity across proficiency levels in L2 Italian: Some preliminary findings
García-Guerrero Elena and Cristóbal Lozano. Is planning time beneficial for L2 production? A corpus-based study of anaphora resolution in L1 Spanish – L2
English learners
Hammond Thomas A. From production short-cuts to syntactic development? Analysing the production of fixed expressions (FEs) with the development ofthe L2 computational component
Holmquist Kristoffer and Therese Lindström Tiedemann. A corpus-based study of derivational morphology in written L2 Swedish
Ibn Alameer Sadeem, Dagmar Divjak, and Paul Thompson. An exploratory corpus-based study of Arab learners' usage of English phrasal verbs
Lopopolo Olga and Fabio Zanda. The relevance of inter and intra-rater reliability in multi-layer annotation procedures
Maso Sara. Tracking the development of written language competence in L2 Italian: A NLP-based approach
Migliorelli Alice. Variants and varieties of learning preserved in the historical archives of the University for Foreigners of Perugia: Toward the building of adigital learning corpus
Wedig Helena, Carola Strobl, and Jim Ureel. The Beldeko corpus: A new resource for investigating L2 German texts written by L1 Dutch students
Weiss Zarah, Moritz Sahlender, Inga ten Hagen, Anastasia Knaus, and Stefanie Helbig. Investigating spoken classroom interactions in linguisticallyheterogeneous learning groups – An interdisciplinary approach to compile multi-modal corpora in second language classrooms
Zasina Adrian Jan and Elżbieta Kaczmarska. Czech errors in writings based on the Polish learner corpus PoLKo: A pilot study

The Benjamins Poster Prize will be awarded during the LCA General Assembly.

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