Japanese L1 Speakers Blogging in Spanish: Motivation, Topics and Linguistic Properties

14 pages•Published: November 28, 2016

Abstract

Web blogs are a particular type of text because of their ambivalent nature: they are private and public, speech and writing, monologue and dialogue at the same time. They can be a good source of information about learners’ motivation to write in a foreign language and their favorite topics, and they have particular linguistic properties. To investigate these questions, we constructed a blog corpus made up of 2,125 texts coming from 48 Spanish blogs written by 43 Japanese L1 speakers.

Keyphrases: blog corpus, blogging, ele, japanese l1, learner corpus, motivation

In: Antonio Moreno Ortiz and Chantal Pérez-Hernández (editors). CILC2016. 8th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, vol 1, pages 424-437.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/5Fb
	https://doi.org/10.29007/k2jk

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{CILC2016:Japanese_L1_Speakers_Blogging,
  author    = {M. Pilar Valverde Ibañez},
  title     = {Japanese L1 Speakers Blogging in Spanish: Motivation, Topics and Linguistic Properties},
  booktitle = {CILC2016. 8th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics},
  editor    = {Antonio Moreno Ortiz and Chantal Pérez-Hernández},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Language and Linguistics},
  volume    = {1},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-5283},
  url       = {/publications/paper/5Fb},
  doi       = {10.29007/k2jk},
  pages     = {424-437},
  year      = {2016}}

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