Tomáš Gráf
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tomáš Gráf plays a role.
2023 Oral reading tasks as proficiency indicators: Insights from a learner corpus study International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 9:2, pp. 155–179 | Article
This study aims to explore the potential of oral reading tasks to establish learners’ proficiency when compiling learner corpora. Informed by research on oral reading fluency, we selected a text containing a variety of linguistic features and submitted it to 68 English learners in Taiwan, who… read more
2023 Development of the use of discourse markers across different fluency levels of CEFR: A learner corpus analysis Pragmatics 33:1, pp. 49–77 | Article
Fluent L2 English speakers frequently use discourse markers (DMs) as a speech management strategy, but research has largely ignored how this develops across different proficiency levels and how it is related to immersive experiences. This study examines the developmental patterns of three DMs –… read more
2022 Chapter 13. Derivational paradigms in ELT textbooks Paradigms in Word Formation: Theory and applications, Ruz, Alba E., Cristina Fernández-Alcaina and Cristina Lara-Clares (eds.), pp. 343–378 | Chapter
Developing morphological awareness is an effective learning strategy which can simplify learning L2 vocabulary. The present chapter explores how far morphological-awareness activities are represented in over 100 international ELT coursebooks, 10 teacher training manuals and 17 practice books.… read more
2022 Persistent errors in spoken English among Taiwanese and Czech learners at CEFR B2 and C1 Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in Learner Corpus Research, Leńko-Szymańska, Agnieszka and Sandra Götz (eds.), pp. 137–158 | Chapter
The study provides empirical evidence illustrating the development of grammatical accuracy in spoken learner English from CEFR’s B2 to C1 levels of accuracy. It uses the CEFR-rated and error-tagged Taiwanese and Czech sub-corpora of LINDSEI containing altogether 54 B2 and 36 C1 speakers. The… read more
2019 Speech rate revisited: The effect of task design on speech rate Learner Corpora and Language Teaching, Götz, Sandra and Joybrato Mukherjee (eds.), pp. 175–190 | Chapter
The present study aims to explore the effect of elicitation-task design on speech rate. The data derives from the Czech learner subcorpus of the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI_CZ), its native English counterpart the Louvain Corpus of Native English… read more
