Provides an overview of developments on the use of learner corpora perceived from developmental and crosslinguistic perspectives. This book investigates the development of English language skills of young learners across seven countries on the basis of a corpus resource called the International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage (ICCI).

1. Contents; 2. Message from the President (by Kameyama, Ikuo); 3. Center for Corpus-based Linguistics and Language Education (by Minegishi, Makoto); 4. Introduction (by Tono, Yukio); 5. Part 1. The International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage (ICCI); 6. The English profile: Using learner data to develop the CEFR for English (by Saville, Nick); 7. International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage: Project overview and a case study on the acquisition of new verb co-occurrence patterns (by Tono, Yukio); 8. Compilation and exploration of ICCI corpus for learner language research (by Hong, Huaqing); 9. The use of demonstrative reference in English texts by Austrian school-age learners (by Schiftner, Barbara); 10. The role of conventionalized language in the acquisition and use of articles by Polish EFL learners (by Lenko-Szymanska, Agnieszka); 11. The use of intensifying adverbs in learner writing (by Perez-Paredes, Pascual); 12. Profiling EFL learners' writing performance by syntactic complexity: A corpus-based study (by Shih, Austina); 13. A cross-sectional analysis of the use of the English article system in Spanish learner writing (by Diez-Bedmar, Maria Belen); 14. Lexical richness and variation in the writing of school-age EFL learners at different learning stages and different educational systems (by Levitzky-Aviad, Tammar); 15. Use and misuse of cohesive devices in the writings of EFL Chinese learners: A corpus-based study (by Liu, Yongbing); 16. Normalising frequency counts to account for 'opportunity of use' in learner corpora (by Buttery, Paula); 17. Part 2. Issues of learner corpus research: Focus on speech data; 18. Spanish learners' production of French close rounded vowels: A corpus-based perceptual study (by Racine, Isabelle); 19. Coding an L2 phonological corpus: From perceptual assessment to non-native speech models -An illustration with French nasal vowels- (by Detey, Sylvain); 20. Design and analysis of Asian English speech corpus -How to elicit L1 phonology in L2 English data- (by Kondo, Mariko); 21. Lexical profile of French learner speech: The Case of Japanese university students (by Sugiyama, Kaori); 22. What's (not) in a corpus?-What to look for in a learner corpus of spoken English- (by Saito, Hiroko); 23. The use of multi-word units in learner language narratives: Are there qualitative and/or quantitative differences between Japanese ESL learners and EFL learners? (by Yoshitomi, Asako); 24. Corpus-based analysis of lexical collocations by intermediate Japanese language learners -With a focus on the verb suru (by Suzuki, Ayano); 25. Index of proper nouns; 26. Index of subjects; 27. Contributors