February 2012
Documenting
the “Linguistic
Profile” of
the Greek Foreign
Language User
by
Paraskevi Gotsoulia, National
and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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This paper focuses on essential methodological issues
related to the development of a descriptor model for
language competences based on extensive linguistic
evidence drawn from foreign language learner corpora.
The research strands presented here comprise the basis
of a project aiming to document the ‘linguistic profile’
of the Greek foreign language user, i.e. to give
explicit, detailed descriptions of the lexical,
semantic, and grammatical knowledge associated with each
of the six levels put forth by the Council of Europe and
described by the Common European Framework of Reference
for Languages (CEFR). Combining a theoretically
well-founded framework for the representation of lexical
meaning as well as a model for the analysis of the
functional context of language use (genre-based model),
we implement an innovative, generic methodology suitable
for documenting the linguistic features of the learner
language production in various communicative
environments. This methodology, applying commonly to all
languages included in the project, allows for the
systematic description and documentation of socially
meaningful uses of language across distinct learning
stages, in terms of interrelated features pertaining to
distinct levels of linguistic analysis (lexical,
semantic, grammatical/morpho-syntactic, functional).
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