Accuracy across Proficiency Levels

This volume is a corpus study of the construct of accuracy by learners of
English as a Foreign Language based on the International Corpus of Learner
English. Accuracy is analysed from a developmental point of view at four
consecutive levels of language proficiency (B1, B2, C1, C2), thereby providing
insights into areas of progress, stabilisation and regression. Written within
a computer-aided error analysis research framework, this volume offers
valuable information about the development of more than forty error types in a
wide variety of domains such as grammar, lexis, lexico-grammar, spelling and
punctuation. It provides important methodological considerations for
developmental learner corpus research, presents abundantly illustrated
analyses of authentic learner errors as well as suggestions for improving the
descriptors of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.