Barbara Schiftner
List of John Benjamins publications for which Barbara Schiftner plays a role.
Articles
2014 (Non-)signalling of coherence structures in English learner writing The Pragmatics of Discourse Coherence: Theories and applications, Gruber, Helmut and Gisela Redeker (eds.), pp. 243–266 | Article
This study explores different realisations of discourse relations in a corpus of
English learner writing. A sample of 30 essays produced by upper intermediate
learners of English (mean age: 23) is subjected to a multi-method analysis
incorporating (1) global coherence ratings, (2) rhetorical… read more
2013 Analysing coherence in upper-intermediate learner writing Automatic Treatment and Analysis of Learner Corpus Data, Díaz-Negrillo, Ana, Nicolas Ballier and Paul Thompson (eds.), pp. 265–286 | Article
Previous studies on coherence and cohesion in learner writing indicate that the relationship between the two is not as straightforward as teaching practice seems to suggest. To allow for a meaning-focused analysis of coherence in learner writing, this paper presents a multi-perspective approach… read more
2012 The use of demonstrative reference in English texts by Austrian school-age learners Developmental and Crosslinguistic Perspectives in Learner Corpus Research, Tono, Yukio, Yuji Kawaguchi and Makoto Minegishi (eds.), pp. 63–82 | Article
2011 Marginal prepositions in learner English: Applying local corpus data Applying Corpus Linguistics, Farr, Fiona and Anne O'Keeffe (eds.), pp. 412–434 | Article
This paper illustrates the use of learner corpus data to inform language teaching. A comparative interlanguage analysis of a specific class of complex and marginal prepositions in a range of L1 German learner corpora is presented. The comparison shows that, in native English, prepositions in the… read more