Textbook English: A multi-dimensional approach
Elen Le Foll
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 116] 2024. xix, 294 pp.
Elen Le Foll
List of John Benjamins publications for which Elen Le Foll plays a role.
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Subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
2024 The more proficient the learners, the less sophisticated their L2 vocabulary? The curious effect of the reference corpus on mean-frequency measures of lexical sophistication International Journal of Learner Corpus Research: Online-First Articles | Article
Mean-frequency scores of lexical sophistication are used to evaluate written and spoken language production. They are calculated using word frequencies extracted from a reference corpus. Using mixed-effects regression models, we analyse the strength of the relationship between L2 proficiency and… read more
2022 “I’m putting some salt in my sandwich”.: The use of the progressive in EFL textbook conversation Broadening the Spectrum of Corpus Linguistics: New approaches to variability and change, Flach, Susanne and Martin Hilpert (eds.), pp. 93–132 | Chapter
Previous studies have claimed that the progressive is frequently over- and misrepresented in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks (e.g. Römer 2005). This paper compares the representation of progressives in the dialogues of nine series of secondary school EFL textbooks (43 volumes) to… read more
2022 Testing the pedagogical norm: Comparing if- conditionals in EFL textbooks, learner writing and English outside the classroom International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 8:1, pp. 31–66 | Article
English as a foreign language (EFL) textbooks typically present a prescriptive typology of three or four conditional types. We examine the extent to which this long-established English Language Teaching (ELT) typology is reflected in four varieties of English by comparing the forms and functions… read more
2021 Register variation in school EFL textbooks Register in L1 and L2 Language Development, Gray, Bethany and Jesse Egbert (eds.), pp. 207–246 | Article
This study applies additive Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) (Biber 1988) to explore the linguistic characteristics of ‘school English’ or ‘textbook English’. It seeks to find out how text registers commonly featured in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks differ from comparable… read more