The synchronous and asynchronous communication analysed was part of the MiLC Corpus, a multilingual learner corpus of texts written by language learners from different language backgrounds. The main research questions centred on the differences in the amount and types of errors found in both the synchronous and asynchronous modes of communication, and whether different L1 groups committed certain errors more than their counterparts from other mother tongue backgrounds.
Via Nik Peachey
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Soon, phone trees will understand me!
To read about research on the frequency and type of errors made by language learners from different L1 backgrounds check this out. The research was carried out by three teachers at the University of Valencia. A full copy of the report is available in PDF.
I've always wondered about this, as I often notice many errors when children post on our blog, but not as many when writing in class,...can SMS and chat rooms be blamed?