Does Accuracy Really Matter? Interpreting the Results of a Corpus-based Analysis of Advanced English in Czech Tertiary Education
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
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| Description | “Advanced learners tend to be fluent but not very accurate” is surely an observation made by many language teachers (not exclusively) at universities. This plenary session will present a corpus-based analysis of advanced learner English, both written and spoken, in an attempt to provide evidence that accuracy does, indeed, need attention from both learners and teachers. Terms of error and accuracy will first be defined, and some controversies related to the choice of norm in English language teaching will be briefly addressed. Areas frequently affected by errors will then be presented in more detail based on a corpus analysis of samples of students written and spoken language, providing some important implications for language practitioners. |