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Learner language is the written or spoken language produced by a learner; it is also the main type of data used in second language acquisition research (Ellis and Barkhuizen 2005). Much research in second – language acquisition is concerned with the internal representations of a language in the mind of the learner and in how those representations change over time. It is not yet possible to inspect these representations directly with brain scans or similar techniques, so SLA researchers usually resort to making inferences about these rules from learners’ speech or writing. It is the learner’s speech or writing that we refer to as learner language.
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