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The interest in the exploitation of corpora in the study of Korean L2 learners’ use of English has risen dramatically over the past two decades, leading to the compilation of learner corpora and to numerous empirical investigations into Korean learners’ use of English. This paper will give an overview of the compilation and characteristics of English learner corpora in Korea and will also provide an analysis of the recent trends in learner corpus research. It was not until the mid-2000s that Kor

Compilation and investigations of non-native learner English have been a relatively recent enterprise worldwide. It was not until the early 1990s that...

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that using a representative corpus of natural language can provide better answers to questions about specific language usage than any published dictionary-for example, bilingual dictionaries, native-speaker dictionaries, and learners dictionaries. With an example of the phrase naked eye, the paper compares the information contained in the dictionary entry with that of a corpus, called the British National Corpus (100 million words). Access to the corpu

This paper describes the main stages in the development of the history of English dictionaries. The earliest monolingual English dictionary, published in 1604, was a dictionary of hard words, which provided a selection of words of foreign origin, as did all subsequent dictionaries in the 17th century. From the 18th century onwards dictionaries started to include the whole range of English vocabulary, but many dictionaries were intended to act as an authoritative source of proper usage. The secon