CORPUS APPROACH IN THE STUDY OF THE LANGUAGE DEVIATIONS IN BULGARIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to present a comprehensive overview of the learner corpora as a significant tool in the research on foreign language acquisition. It aims to show the possibilities of the corpus approach in the study of language deviations in Bulgarian as a foreign language. Some of the applications and ways to extract information from error-tagged electronic corpora are also provided. The paper contains the initial steps of the project for a learner corpus of Bulgarian as a foreign language.