Computer-aided Error Analysis

There is no doubt that Error Analysis (EA) has represented a major step forward in the development of SLA research, but equally, it is also true that it has failed to fulfill all its promises (see below). In this article we aim to demonstrate that recognizing the limitations of EA does not necessarily spell its death. We propose instead that it should be reinvented in the form of Computer-aided Error Analysis (CEA), a new type of computer corpus annotation

The International Corpus of Learner English. Version 2. Handbook and CD-Rom

The International Corpus of Learner English (Version 2) is a corpus of writing by higher intermediate to advanced learners of English. It contains 3.7 million words of EFL writing from learners representing 16 different mother tongue backgrounds (Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Tswana). It differs from the first version published in 2002 not only by its increased size and range of learner populations, but also by its interface, which contains two new functionalities: built-in concordancer allowing users to search for word forms, lemmas and/or part-of-speech tags and breakdown of the query results according to the learner profile information