TAKEI Mitsuko    Department   Hiroshima shudo University  The Faculty of Global and Community Studies    Position   Professor
Date	2012/09
Presentation Theme	A centering analysis of a comparable learner/native-speaker corpus
Conference	BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics) 2012 Conference
Promoters	British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Poster
Contribution Type	Collaborative
Venue	Southampton, UK
Publisher and common publisher	Mitsuko Yamura-Takei & Etsuko Yoshida
Details	This presentation attempts to explicate learner-specific tendencies in discourse-level features, rather than well-studied lexco-grammatical patterns, with a particular attention to coherence created by reference to discourse entities. The data, collected from 63 learners of English at a university in Japan (EL) and 34 native speakers of English at a U.S. university (ENS), was analyzed in the framework of Centering Theory (Grosz et al., 1995). The analysis results provided us with some similarities and differences between EL and ENS data in the distribution of the TRANSITION types and their sequence patterns.