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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Dear Belén and others, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>I can recommend a very
nice article on learner corpora by Nadja Nesselhauf which gives a thorough
overview of what's available, just out in a collection edited by John Sinclair.
The full reference is: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Nesselhauf, Nadja. 2004.
Learner Corpora and their Potential for Language Teaching. In: Sinclair, John
McH. (ed.) <i><span style='font-style:italic'>How to Use Corpora in Language
Teaching</span></i>. <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Amsterdam</st1:place></st1:City>:
Benjamins. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Another relevant paper
by Norma A. Pravec, entitled “Survey of learner corpora”, was
published in the ICAME Journal (no. 26) in 2002. The paper is available online
at <a href="http://nora.hd.uib.no/icame/ij26/">http://nora.hd.uib.no/icame/ij26/</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>And then there is a very
nice chapter on the topic, written by Michael Barlow, which will soon be
published in a volume edited by Rod Ellis (but I don't know the title). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>I am also working on a
written learner corpus myself, though that one is still in a rather early stage
(at present it is basically an unedited collection of text files). It consists
of English term papers and essays written by German university students. The
corpus is called "CALC", for Cologne Advanced Learner's Corpus, but
it might soon develop into "CHALC" as I am planning to add some of my
<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hanover</st1:place></st1:State>
students' term papers. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Best wishes... Ute<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt'>************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Ute Römer<br>
English Department<br>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> -----Original
Message-----<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> From:
owner-corpora@lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no] On<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> Behalf Of Mª Belén D</span></font><font
size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>íez
Bedmar<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> Sent: Wednesday,
April 28, 2004 12:50 PM<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> Cc: CORPORA@UIB.NO<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> Subject:
[Corpora-List] Learner Corpora<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> my name is Belen
Diez and I am a research student at the University of<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> Jaen, Spain. I'm
currently doing research on written learner corpora,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> that is, written
corpora of students of English as a second or foreign<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> language.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> As I would like to
add a list with relevant information of the learner<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> corpora that have
been compiled or are in the process, I would<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> appreciate if you
could email me with the main features of the learner<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> corpora you are
working with (either big or 'home-made' ones).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> Thank you all
beforehand,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> Belen Diez<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> Department of
English Philology<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> University of Jaen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>> Spain<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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