Research Seminar "Linguistics of Errors in the Light of Language Interference"

2025/2026

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

3

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Школа лингвистики

Статус:

Курс по выбору

Когда читается:

1-й курс, 3, 4 модуль

Преподаватели

Выренкова Анастасия Сергеевна

Рахилина Екатерина Владимировна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

In this course, students will focus on the speech of so-called non-standard native speakers. The course discusses language variants and different paths of language acquisition, as well as non-standard speech analysis methods. Students will learn how to identify speech strategies that result in violations of standard language use, and how to work with non-standard texts in Russian. As part of the course, participants will also gain practical skills in automatic processing of Russian texts written by L2 and heritage authors. They will also be introduced to the main approaches and problems in the domain of language interference.

Learning Objectives

• Familiarizing students with types of native speakers and the peculiarities of their vocabulary and grammar
• Teaching methods for analyzing violations committed by different native speakers in speech production
• Teaching students GEC approaches specific for Russian texts written by non-native speakers

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Knows the concept of standard and non-standard language
• Detects violations in the speech of non-standard speakers
• Knows how to use the term "native speaker"
• Knows the basic approaches to studying heritage grammars.
• Explains the nature of violations inherent in the speech of heritage speakers.
• Identifies violations characteristic of heritage speech.
• Focuses on the main approaches to SLA.
• Distinguishes between violations characteristic of foreign language learners' speech.
• Identifies and differentiates between the speech behavior strategies of native speakers and foreign language learners
• Knows the advantages and disadvantages of various methods of learning non-standard grammars
• Knows how to work with corpus data: data collection, annotation, search results analysis.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of various machine learning techniques and methods for GEC tasks

Course Contents

• Introduction. Standard and non-standard language
• Who is a language speaker
• Heritage speakers of Russian as a special type of speakers, their differences from those who study Russian as a foreign language
• Errors and their classification. Speech strategies of heritage speakers and foreign language learners. Spellcheckers.
• How to study non-standard grammars. Learner corpora. The Russian Learner Corpus.
• GEC with machine learning

Assessment Elements

• Essay
• Classroom activity
• Home Assignment
• Mid-term test

Interim Assessment

• 2025/2026 4th module
  0.1 * Classroom activity + 0.3 * Essay + 0.3 * Home Assignment + 0.3 * Mid-term test

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Granger, S., & Paquot, M. (2013). Language for Specific Purposes Learner Corpora. Belgium, Europe: Blackwell-Wiley. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.EBBB9DBD
• Polinsky, M. (2018). Heritage Languages and Their Speakers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1875058
• Rakhilina, E., Vyrenkova, A., & Polinsky, M. (2016). Linguistic Creativity in Heritage Speakers. https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.90
• Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course By: Gass, Susan M; Babb-Rosensfeld; Plonsky, Luke; Behney, Jennifer. Routledge. ISBN: 978-0-415-89478-4, 978-0-415-89495-1, 978-0-203-13709-3, 978-1-136-48877-1, 978-1-136-48879-5, 978-1-136-48880-1, 978-1-299-81206-2. Education (General).
• The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing [Электронный ресурс] / ed. by Alexander Clark, Chris Fox, Shalom Lappin; DB ebrary. – Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2013. – 203 p. – Режим доступа: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/reader.action?docID=4035461&query=computational+linguistics

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Baker, D. L., Basaraba, D. L., & Richards-Tutor, C. (2018). Second Language Acquisition: Methods, Perspectives and Challenges. New York: Nova. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1931448
• Benmamoun, E., Montrul, S., & Polinsky, M. (2014). Defining an “ideal” heritage speaker: Theoretical and methodological challenges | Reply to peer commentaries. https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2013-0018
• Ellis, R., & Shintani, N. (2014). Exploring Language Pedagogy Through Second Language Acquisition Research. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=621962
• Maria Polinsky. (n.d.). Journal of Slavic Linguistics 14(2): 191262, 2006. Incomplete Acquisition: American Russian*. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.35541738
• Mitkov R. (ed.). The Oxford handbook of computational linguistics. – Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Montrul, S. (2015). The Acquisition of Heritage Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1093148
• Vyatkina, N. (2018). Pragmatics in learner corpora. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.87438B71
• Witten, I. H. et al. Data Mining: Practical machine learning tools and techniques. – Morgan Kaufmann, 2017. – 654 pp.

Authors

• DYACHKOVA ANNA EVGENEVNA
• Vyrenkova Anastasiia Sergeevna