Russian Learner Corpora Research: State of the Art and Call for Action

ABSTRACT With the increase in availability and user-friendliness of Russian language corpora and corpus-analytic tools, the field of Russian language education has recently begun to employ corpus linguistics as an approach to understanding the dynamic of language development in users of Russian as a second and heritage language. The paper provides a brief overview of the current state of learner corpus research as a field and explores the benefits of application of corpus linguistics methods and instruments to the study of Russian. The paper reviews pertinent issues in corpora design, compilation, and annotation; offers an overview of the existing Russian language corpora and reports on the currently available corpus-based studies of Russian as a second/heritage language. The paper concludes with a call to the field to explore the benefit of corpus-based approaches to the study of Russian.摘要 随着俄语语料库与语料库分析工具的可获取性及易用性持续提升，俄语教育领域近期开始采用语料语言学（Corpus Linguistics）作为研究路径，以探析俄语作为第二语言及传承语言学习者的语言发展动态。本文首先概述了学习者语料库（Learner Corpus）研究领域的当前发展态势，并探讨了将语料语言学方法与工具应用于俄语研究的优势。本文梳理了语料库设计、构建与标注中的相关核心议题，对现有俄语语料库进行了综述，并汇报了当前已有的基于语料库的俄语作为第二/传承语言的相关研究成果。本文最后呼吁该领域深入探索基于语料库的俄语研究方法的应用价值。