The workshop

On June 8th 2018, the research team of the ANACOR research project organises its first workshop on Anaphora Resolution in Second Language Acquisition (ARISLA) at the Universidad de Granada. We will bring together different methodological and theoretical approaches to anaphora resolution in bilingualism and second language acquisition (SLA), such as corpus and (psycho)linguistic approaches.

The aim of the workshop is (i) to present the latest research conducted within the ANACOR project regarding anaphora resolution and learner corpora; (ii) to create synergies between the ANACOR national and international team members as well as well-known (inter)national researchers working on anaphora resolution; (iii) to deepen our understanding of the multiple factors that constrain anaphora resolution in SLA.

You are more than welcome to attend our workshop!

The research project

The overarching goal of the ANACOR research project is to understand how late bilinguals (=learners of a second language, L2) use anaphoric forms to refer to their antecedents in previous discourse. We use large corpus data, as well as experimental data, to investigate this in several language combinations.

Our corpora are being collected online via the web portal LEARNERCORPORA.COM:

• CEDEL2 corpus (Corpus Escrito del Español como L2), which contains data from L1 English/German/Dutch/Greek/Japanese learners of L2 Spanish, as well as a comparable Spanish native subcorpus. CEDEL2 (version 1) is already available online at cedel2.learnercorpora.com.
• COREFL (Corpus of English as a Foreign Language), which contains data from L1 Spanish/German learners of L2 English, as well as a comparable English native subcorpus.

Specifically, the two major project goals are (i) to better understand the mechanisms underlying the language of adult bilingual learners of a second language in relation to anaphora resolution; (i) to create new electronic resources (corpora) like COREFL and enlarge existing corpora like CEDEL2 to investigate anaphora resolution in SLA.