Being main teaching media and major source of comprehensive target language input, teacher talk plays an important role in learners' second-language acquisition. Under the trend of "learner-centered" teaching mode, some researchers think that the best teacher talk means less. But the author holds that, in Chinese second language classroom, it is not advisable to lay too much stress on the forma...

We begin by showing that the best publicly available, multiple-L1 learner corpus, the International Corpus of Learner English (Granger et al. 2009), has serious issues when used for the task of native language detection (NLD). The topic biases in the corpus are a confounding factor that result in crossvalidated performance that is misleading, for all the feature types which are traditionally us...

Computational stylistics refers informally to a collection of tasks within computational linguistics that deal with the style—as opposed to the semantic content—of natural language. The most famous of these tasks is perhaps authorship attribution (Stamatatos et al., 2001), which uses statistical variations in word choice to select the most likely from a fixed set of potential authors. Though ap...