This study has three purposes. Firstly, I summarize the standards and characteristics found in currently available corpora of English among Japanese learners and of Japanese amongforeign learners. Secondly, I discuss what aspects such learner corpuses might uncover through Granger’s CIA model and what corpus designs would be able to address the criticismsagainst natural, or non-elicited, language data. Thirdly, I describe the design standards and characteristics found in our International Corpus of Learner Japanese (ICLEAJ).研究論
