This book presents a corpus-based study of spoken learner language produced by university-level
ESL students in the classroom. Using contemporary theories as a guide and employing
cutting-edge corpus analysis tools and methods the authors analyse a variety of learner speech
to offer many new insights into the nature and characteristics of the spoken language of
college ESL learners. Focusing on types of speech that are rarely examined this original work
makes a significant contribution to the study and understanding of ESL spoken language at
university level. It will appeal to students and scholars of applied linguistics corpus
linguistics second language acquisition and discourse analysis.
