This work on clausal complementation studies the quantitative and qualitative similarities and differences of spoken learner and native language structuring by using data from VICOLSE (an oral learner corpus compiled by the author), LINDSEI and LOCNEC. It also shows how the interplay of several factors (e.g. methodology, corpus comparability, etc.) cannot be overlooked in learner language studies.

Beatriz Tizón-Couto holds an MA (English Language and Literature) and PhD (English Linguistics) from the University of Vigo. From 2005 to 2009 she taught English at the Centre of Modern Languages at the same university. She worked as a research assistant in the Language Variation and Textual Categorization research unit in Vigo in 2008 and 2009. Currently, Beatriz Tizón-Couto works as a teacher of English at the Official School of Languages in Vigo.

Contents: Learner language studies – The form and function of complement clauses in English – VICOLSE: creation and description of an EFL spoken learner corpus – A study of complement clauses in learner and native spoken English: VICOLSE, LINDSEI Spanish, LINDSEI German and LOCNEC compared.