Valverde, Pilar2026-03-052026-03-052016Valverde, Pilar (2016). Japanese L1 speakers blogging in Spanish: motivations, topics and linguistic properties. En Moreno Ortiz, A. & Pérez-Hernández, C (Eds.) EPiC Series in Language and Linguistics. 8th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, vol.1, pp. 424-437, ISSN 2398-52832398-5283https://hdl.handle.net/2183/47584[Abstract] Corpus-based research on learner written language is usually based on corpora made of assignments or exams. In this paper, we instead study personal blogs of learners, since they are a good source of information about learners’ motivation to write in a foreign language and their favorite topics, and they have particular linguistic properties. We constructed a blog corpus made up of 2,125 texts coming from 48 Spanish blogs written by 43 Japanese L1 speakers. We find that the main motivations to write a blog are documenting one’s life and explaining Japanese culture to a foreign reader. With regard to their linguistic properties, blogs have much in common with both spoken and ritten language, and the language used is rather informal: we find a higher proportion of lexical verbs, adverbs and personal pronouns and interestingly, it contains also foreign words (Japanese words) and emoticons with various functions.engBlog corpusBlogging ELEJapanese L1Learner corporaMotivationEspañol como lengua extranjeraAprendices japoneses de españolExpresión escritaconference outputopen access