Abstract
Despite significant advances in research on second language acquisition by learners with specific learning difficulties over recent decades, the field of educational linguistics continues to suffer from a lack of large-scale linguistic data capable of illuminating the characteristics of these learners’ interlanguage. The Neurodivergent Learner Corpus , developed at the University of Parma (Italy), seeks to fill this gap. This paper provides a detailed account of the corpus’s features, its development process, and its potential contributions to both pedagogical practice and scientific research.
Keywords
Educational linguistics – learner corpus research – specific learning difficulties – English as a foreign language – L2 oral production.