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The opening keynote at #VAR4LCR is by none other than the master of register variation, Doug Biber, on "Grammatical complexity in L2 writing development: Contrasting oral versus literate complexity across registers and
developmental levels", himself introduced by the doyenne of learner corpus research, Sylviane Granger. Doug showed us lots of heat maps illustrating bottom-up patterns of co-occurrences of complexity features in English L2 writing based on recent work by himself, Tove Larsson and Greg Hancock, e.g., https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2025-0017.

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
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The first research talk #VAR4LCR is presented by Valentin Werner and Lisa-Christine Altendorf on "Register and task variation in young German learner English: A (quasi-)longitudinal look at complexity". Find out more about the project here: https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/research/young-german-learner-english @corpuslinguistics#EFL#SLA

Photo of conference slide: PROJECT CONTEXT Young German Learner English: Complexity, Accuracy, Fluency Project funded by the German Research Foundation (2023-2026; Grant DFG 515774206) Universities of Bamberg (Valentin Werner), Freiburg (Anna Rosen) & Bonn (Robert Fuchs) Compiling and analyzing a corpus of L2 English interlanguage from learners in the German school system: • Grades 5, 7, 9, 11 (ages 10-18) • Aim: 700+ students • Spoken data & written data Register and task variation in Young German Learner English - Altendorf et al. - VARALCR 06.07.2025
Photo of conference slide: PROJECT CONTEXT Young German Learner English: Complexity, Accuracy, Fluency Project funded by the German Research Foundation (2023-2026; Grant DFG 515774206) Universities of Bamberg (Valentin Werner), Freiburg (Anna Rosen) & Bonn (Robert Fuchs) Compiling and analyzing a corpus of L2 English interlanguage from learners in the German school system: • Grades 5, 7, 9, 11 (ages 10-18) • Aim: 700+ students • Spoken data & written data Register and task variation in Young German Learner English - Altendorf et al. - VARALCR 06.07.2025
Photo of conference slide: PROJECT CONTEXT Young German Learner English: Complexity, Accuracy, Fluency Project funded by the German Research Foundation (2023-2026; Grant DFG 515774206) Universities of Bamberg (Valentin Werner), Freiburg (Anna Rosen) & Bonn (Robert Fuchs) Compiling and analyzing a corpus of L2 English interlanguage from learners in the German school system: • Grades 5, 7, 9, 11 (ages 10-18) • Aim: 700+ students • Spoken data & written data Register and task variation in Young German Learner English - Altendorf et al. - VARALCR 06.07.2025
Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
@ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Next up #VAR4LCR María Belén Díez-Bedmar is speaking on "Exploring task type effects on L2 accuracy profiles: Narrative vs. email writing by B1 Spanish EFL learners". This study is based on the FineDesc Learner Corpus, which is a manually error-tagged controlled corpus of 200 texts written by 100 Spanish EFL learners that allows for many interesting comparisons: https://web.ujaen.es/investiga/finedesc/index.php.

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- FineDesc Learner corpus > Collaboration of 7 University Language Centres (accredited by CertAcles) • L1 Spanish, but considering co-official languages > Status of English (EFL1, EFL2, ESL, etc.) > Attendance (or not) to a preparation course • Register, text type, main illocutionary force, topic
- FineDesc Learner corpus > Collaboration of 7 University Language Centres (accredited by CertAcles) • L1 Spanish, but considering co-official languages > Status of English (EFL1, EFL2, ESL, etc.) > Attendance (or not) to a preparation course • Register, text type, main illocutionary force, topic
- FineDesc Learner corpus > Collaboration of 7 University Language Centres (accredited by CertAcles) • L1 Spanish, but considering co-official languages > Status of English (EFL1, EFL2, ESL, etc.) > Attendance (or not) to a preparation course • Register, text type, main illocutionary force, topic
L2 accuracy criterial features: narrative writing vs email writing at B1 level Fine Desc Large effect size Narrative writing Email writing • Indefinite pronouns • Adverb position • Incorrect marking of number in • Unclear passages adjectives Medium to large effect size • Subject-verb agreement • Verb morphology Tense and aspect • Word class selection Dependent prepositions on verbs • Verb voice errors • Indefinite determiners • Possessive determiners Small to medium effect size • Spelling • Adjective selection • Verb selection • Use of incorrect punctuation
L2 accuracy criterial features: narrative writing vs email writing at B1 level Fine Desc Large effect size Narrative writing Email writing • Indefinite pronouns • Adverb position • Incorrect marking of number in • Unclear passages adjectives Medium to large effect size • Subject-verb agreement • Verb morphology Tense and aspect • Word class selection Dependent prepositions on verbs • Verb voice errors • Indefinite determiners • Possessive determiners Small to medium effect size • Spelling • Adjective selection • Verb selection • Use of incorrect punctuation
L2 accuracy criterial features: narrative writing vs email writing at B1 level Fine Desc Large effect size Narrative writing Email writing • Indefinite pronouns • Adverb position • Incorrect marking of number in • Unclear passages adjectives Medium to large effect size • Subject-verb agreement • Verb morphology Tense and aspect • Word class selection Dependent prepositions on verbs • Verb voice errors • Indefinite determiners • Possessive determiners Small to medium effect size • Spelling • Adjective selection • Verb selection • Use of incorrect punctuation
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Coming in that difficult slot just before lunch #VAR4LCR, Marylise Rilliard is presenting collaborative work on "Task-based variation in L2 French: Does orthography influence the realization of final consonants?". Very happy to see learner corpus research on a language other than English! And even more happy that that language is French!! 😊

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Research presenting a slide that reads: Methodology Data & Participants • Subset of corpus ProF - Austrian high school students learning French as L2 (year 1-6) • Two tasks > read-aloud task (textbook reading) > interview with native speaker • 51 participants >31 1st year students >20 6th year students 7/6/2025 YAKULCK • UL LOUVdI Target Phones • Final /p, t, k/ and /s/ > words with corresponding graphemes • silent or not > exclusion of ambiguous cases > <s> plural only on substantives Coding & Analysis • Text aligned with sound in PRAAT • '2' coders • Perceptually coded > realized vs not realized • Internal and external factors > expectation of realization, target phone, cognate > task, year of study • visualization and statistical analysis in R
Research presenting a slide that reads: Methodology Data & Participants • Subset of corpus ProF - Austrian high school students learning French as L2 (year 1-6) • Two tasks > read-aloud task (textbook reading) > interview with native speaker • 51 participants >31 1st year students >20 6th year students 7/6/2025 YAKULCK • UL LOUVdI Target Phones • Final /p, t, k/ and /s/ > words with corresponding graphemes • silent or not > exclusion of ambiguous cases > <s> plural only on substantives Coding & Analysis • Text aligned with sound in PRAAT • '2' coders • Perceptually coded > realized vs not realized • Internal and external factors > expectation of realization, target phone, cognate > task, year of study • visualization and statistical analysis in R
Research presenting a slide that reads: Methodology Data & Participants • Subset of corpus ProF - Austrian high school students learning French as L2 (year 1-6) • Two tasks > read-aloud task (textbook reading) > interview with native speaker • 51 participants >31 1st year students >20 6th year students 7/6/2025 YAKULCK • UL LOUVdI Target Phones • Final /p, t, k/ and /s/ > words with corresponding graphemes • silent or not > exclusion of ambiguous cases > <s> plural only on substantives Coding & Analysis • Text aligned with sound in PRAAT • '2' coders • Perceptually coded > realized vs not realized • Internal and external factors > expectation of realization, target phone, cognate > task, year of study • visualization and statistical analysis in R