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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Dear list members</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Further to my recent posting to this and other discussion lists I have received a number of responses on corpora and language testing, summarised below: </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1) Eric Atwell (Leeds University) directed me to several papers related to corpora and language testing in the ICAME Journal, published by the International Computer Archive of Modern and medieval English. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Danny Minn, Hiroshi Sano, Marie Ino and Takahiro Nakamura. 2005. Using the BNC to create and develop educational materials and a website for learners of English. vol.29 pp.99-115</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Emi Izumi, Kiyotaka Uchimoto and Hitoshi Isahara. 2004. SST speech corpus of Japanese learners' English and automatic detection of learners' errors. vol.28 pp.31-48</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Eric Atwell, Peter Howarth and Clive Souter. 2003. The ISLE Corpus: Italian and German Spoken Learners' English. vol.27 pp.5-18</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Norma A. Pravec. 2002. Survey of learner corpora. vol.26 pp.81-114</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2) Ana Frankenberg-Garcia (Lisbon) mentioned her article: Frankenberg-Garcia, A. (2005) "Pedagogical uses of Monolingual and Parallel Concordances"<I> </I></FONT><I><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ELT Journal</FONT></I> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">59/3, June 2005, pp 189-198. </FONT><A HREF="http://eltj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/59/3/189?ijkey=d1JJgTgvyxSLzMZ&keytype=ref"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">PDF</FONT></U></A><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">. </FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">3) Chantal Enguehard (Nantes) directed me to her English corpus on metal chemestry (CoRRecT). This is used as a bank test to evaluate systems that recognize terms in texts. </FONT><A HREF="http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/info/perso/permanents/enguehard/recherche/CoRRecT/CoRRecT.htm"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/info/perso/permanents/enguehard/recherche/CoRRecT/CoRRecT.htm</FONT></U></A></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">4) Minako Yamada (Japan) is interested in language assessment from the perspective of sociocultural theory and directed me to her study:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Yamada, Minako (2005). Task proficiency and L1 private speech. IRAL, 43, 81-108. </FONT><A HREF="http://www.extenza-eps.com/WDG/doi/abs/10.1515/iral.2005.43.2.81"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Task proficiency and L1 private speech</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> (link via Extenza)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">5) DJ Hatch (Belgrade) provided a reference and is currently looking at the relationship between the use of corpora based tests and teaching via 'authentic' (or 'natural language') materials.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Alderson, J.C. (1996). Do corpora have a role in language assessment? In J.A. Thomas & M.H.Short (Eds.), Using corpora for language research (pp.248-59). London: Longman.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">You can also read a couple of short articles I have written on this subject:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Ball, F. (2001). Using corpora in language testing. Research Notes 6, 6-8, </FONT><A HREF="http://www.cambridgeesol.org/rs_notes/rs_nts6.pdf"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.cambridgeesol.org/rs_notes/rs_nts6.pdf</FONT></U></A></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Barker, F. (2004). Using corpora in language testing. Modern English Teacher, 13(2), 63-67.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I would like to thank everyone who responded to my query and would welcome any further information on past, present and future uses of corpora in language assessment/testing.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Best wishes</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Fiona Barker</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">e-mail: barker.f@cambridgeassessment.org.uk</FONT>
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