Exploring the Grammatical Development of Multilingual Learners of English: A Corpus-Based Perspective

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10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_26How to use a DOI?

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Learner corpora; CBLING; Grammatical development

Abstract

Our current study looks carefully at the development of grammatical learning of English among multilingual young learners in Indonesia. Our specific objectives include examining typical grammatical errors in the learners’ writing across different genres in the corpus, and observing the production of sentential negation construction in the English datasets. The study is set out to conduct a corpus exploitation with the learning corpora itself – we use CBLING (Corpus of Bilingual Learners’ Languages), in this case – containing 154.496 word-tokens from around 1,016 English short essays (Zen et al., 2017). Our initial findings indicate that grammatical errors typically appear around the production of tense markers, person features, and negation. Taken together, our findings are essential not only to inform teachers of English on the learners’ stages of language development, but also for them to design relevant pedagogical interventions. The CBLING itself has become a pioneer in child language data banks that will benefit primary school teachers and language acquisition enthusiasts for further linguistic and pedagogical exploration.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Khilda Husnia Abidah
AU  - Elisa Ratih
AU  - Evynurul Laily Zen
AU  - Ira Maria Fran Lumbanbatu
AU  - Anisatul Ilmiah
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/05/18
TI  - Exploring the Grammatical Development of Multilingual Learners of English: A Corpus-Based Perspective
BT  - Proceedings of the 20th AsiaTEFL-68th TEFLIN-5th iNELTAL Conference (ASIATEFL 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 311
EP  - 320
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_26
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_26
ID  - Abidah2023
ER  -