Learner Corpora and Their Potential for Multilingual Teaching

Abstract

This article primarily deals with building and using a type of language corpus - the learner corpus - for multilingual teaching. It describes all relevant aspects of the con- ceptualization, motivation and construction of learner corpora including the case exam- ple of the German learner corpus FALKO (Fehlerannotiertes Lernerkorpus ‘error an- notated learner corpus’). In addition we discuss the possibility of a learner corpus for the Georgian language using examples from real Georgian language courses at Goethe University Frankfurt and Tbilisi State University. The article stresses the potential of learner corpora for multilingual teaching and multilingual teacher education.