Title: Review. Sylviane Granger, Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Fanny Meunier (eds.). The Cambridge handbook of learner corpus research
Abstract: This impressive volume spans 27 chapters across 628 pages, with each chapter in the volume following the same fixed structure from an 'introduction' of the topic, to an outline of the 'core issues', to a section of 'representative readings' where users of the handbook can further explore the core issues in full research articles, before finishing at a section titled 'critical assessment and future directions', where the author(s) point out limitations of the core issues and how these might be overcome in future research.The volume is aided greatly by the 'key reading' sections following each chapter, which include detailed descriptions of each suggested reading for the benefit of the reader, building on the readings already provided in the 'representative reading' section but without the same level of detail.This addition is likely to be of great benefit to students and junior scholars who will be using the volume as a starting point for their investigations into these topics.Also welcome are the corpus index and software index at the end of the volume, which serve to contextualize each of the resources available via explicit page references to where each resource is mentioned.URLs to these corpora are also often provided as footnotes in-situ, which will be useful for those who are using single chapters of the handbook as part of course materials.The volume includes an introduction before branching off into five distinct areas of learner corpus research, namely learner corpus design and methodology, analysis of learner language, learner corpus research and second language acquisition, learner corpus research and language teaching, and learner corpus research and natural language processing, although numerous cross-references are provided to assist readers in navigating these areas.The rest of this review covers each of these areas in turn.