Authentic language or language errors

[xiaoz]

Authentic language or language errors: lessons from a learner corpus

Melinda Tan

ELT Journal 59/2 April 2005

http://forum.corpus4u.org/upload/forum/2005062509361925.pdf

[xujiajin]

Errors, in the sense of interlanguage, are key to any L2 learner corpora. Authenticity is in the sense of truthful linguistic facts.

[xiaoz]

Learner corpora are valuable just because of such errors if they are annotated properly.

[xujiajin]

Exactly.