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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Dear All,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>A few weeks ago I requested for information
on freely accessible learner corpora of english texts written by learners
with different L1 backgrounds.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>My thanks to the following for their
replies:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face=Arial>- Ylva
Berglund Prytz</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>- Carmela Chateau</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">- </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Anna Feldman</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-GB><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face=Arial>- Šarolta Godnič
Vičič</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></SPAN><FONT size=2
face=Arial>- Xiaotian Guo</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>- Chau Meng Huat</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>- <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">John Milton</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face=Arial>- Stephen
Reder</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></SPAN>- <SPAN lang=EN-GB>Jiajin
Xu</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT size=2
face=Arial></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face=Arial>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR"
lang=EN-GB>Most suggestion for online resources I received pointed to online
concordancers, and some to downloadable data. Some people also proposed to
share (part) of their personally collected corpora. My sincere thanks for their
generosity.</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR"
lang=EN-GB></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: FR"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-GB><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT
face=Arial></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></SPAN><FONT size=2
face=Arial>Below are the links to the different sites that were
suggested (comments are from the websites):</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN><FONT size=2
face=Arial> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p><FONT
face=Arial><STRONG>Chinese Learner English Corpus</STRONG> (free online
concordancer)</FONT></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p><FONT face=Arial><A
href="http://www.clal.org.cn/corpus/EngSearchEngine.aspx"><FONT
face=Arial>http://www.clal.org.cn/corpus/EngSearchEngine.aspx</FONT></A></FONT></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p><FONT
face=Arial>A written English corpus by Chinese students of different
levels.</FONT></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p><FONT
face=Arial></FONT></o:p></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT size=2 face=Arial>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>
<DIV><SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial><STRONG>Cobb's Lextutor</STRONG> (free online
concordancer)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial><A
href="http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/concord_e.html">http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/concord_e.html</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Online concordancer for a number of learner
corpora.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><SPAN></SPAN><FONT size=2
face=Arial><SPAN></SPAN></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN><STRONG>EVA Corpus</STRONG> (free online
concordancer)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><A href="http://kh.hd.uib.no/eva/"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>http://kh.hd.uib.no/eva/</FONT></A></SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial>
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>English L2 corpus, written and spoken by
Norwegian pupils.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV><STRONG>The JPU Corpus</STRONG>
(free online concordancer, free downloadable data)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><A href="http://joeandco.blogspot.com/"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>http://joeandco.blogspot.com/</FONT></A></SPAN><FONT size=2
face=Arial> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN>221 essays and research papers
from Hungarian students' writing in English</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Writing subcorpus at </FONT><A
href="http://joeandco.blogspot.com/2008/06/writing-subcorpus.html"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>http://joeandco.blogspot.com/2008/06/writing-subcorpus.html</FONT></A></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The Russian retraining corpus: </FONT><A
href="http://joeandco.blogspot.com/2008/06/russian-retraining-subcorpus.html"><FONT
size=2
face=Arial>http://joeandco.blogspot.com/2008/06/russian-retraining-subcorpus.html</FONT></A></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The language practice subcorpus: </FONT><A
href="http://joeandco.blogspot.com/2008/06/language-practice-subcorpus.html"><FONT
size=2
face=Arial>http://joeandco.blogspot.com/2008/06/language-practice-subcorpus.html</FONT></A></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Online concordance available at </FONT><A
href="http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/concord_e.html"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/concord_e.html</FONT></A></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN>
<DIV><SPAN><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><STRONG>Learner Business Letters
Corpus</STRONG> (free o<SPAN
class=title2>nline concordancer</SPAN>)</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN><A
href="http://www.someya-net.com/concordancer/">http://www.someya-net.com/concordancer/</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN>209,461 word tokens in 1,464 letters written
by Japanese business people</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial><STRONG>Learner Corpora at the Language
Bank</STRONG> (free online concordancer)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><A href="http://langbank.engl.polyu.edu.hk/indexl.html"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>http://langbank.engl.polyu.edu.hk/indexl.html</FONT></A></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The Learner Corpus of Essays and
Reports contains samples of English writing produced by second language
learners of English as part of their coursework requirements for 'English for
Academic Purposes' at Hong Kong PolyU. The essays and project reports cover a
range of topics from Science, IT and New Media to Nursing, Business and
Economics, and the Social Sciences. This diversity reflects the background of
the student authors, who major in different Higher Diploma and Degree subjects
including Manufacturing Engineering, Nursing, Hotel and Tourism Management,
Social Work, Interior Design and Fashion Design.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><SPAN class=head><FONT size=2 face=Arial>PolyU Language Bank
Concordancer available at </FONT></SPAN><A
href="http://langbank.engl.polyu.edu.hk/engine.aspx?Submit=Search&lang=1&corpus=16"><FONT
size=2
face=Arial>http://langbank.engl.polyu.edu.hk/engine.aspx?Submit=Search&lang=1&corpus=16</FONT></A></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN></SPAN> </DIV></SPAN></FONT></DIV><STRONG>The Multimedia Adult
English Learner Corpus</STRONG> (freely available for research purposes, request
for access)</FONT></SPAN></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><A
href="http://www.labschool.pdx.edu/maelc_access.html"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>http://www.labschool.pdx.edu/maelc_access.html</FONT></A></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>The Multimedia Adult English Learner Corpus (MAELC) is a database of
video of classroom interaction and associated written materials collected as
part of the Lab School research project since 2001. At this time, the corpus
includes materials from four years of classes from adult ESL classes from
beginning to upper-intermediate proficiency - more than 3600 hours of classroom
interaction recorded by six cameras and multiple
microphones.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT
face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT size=2
face=Arial><STRONG>The Montclair Electronic Language Learners' Database</STRONG>
(free downloadable data, free online concordancer)</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><A
href="http://www.chss.montclair.edu/linguistics/MELD/"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>http://www.chss.montclair.edu/linguistics/MELD/</FONT></A></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>The Montclair Electronic Language Learners' Database project
collects, stores, and annotates text written by all levels of second language
(L2) learners. The database is publicly available for research in L2
acquisition, L2 writing assessment, and L2 writing pedagogy. The database
currently contains 44477 words of annotated text and another 53826 words of
available but as yet unannotated text.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV></o:p></SPAN></SPAN>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN><STRONG>PICLE Corpus</STRONG> (free online
concordancer)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN><A
href="http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/~ifaconc/main.php">http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/~ifaconc/main.php</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN>PICLE Corpos of Polish EFL advanced-level
argumentative essays (365 essays, about 330k words).</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN>More information about the IFA Concordancer
on <A
href="http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/~ifaconc/">http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/~ifaconc/</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2
face=Arial><SPAN><STRONG>Singapore Corpus of Research in Education</STRONG>
(online query, free registration) </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN><A
href="http://score.crpp.nie.edu.sg/score/index.htm">http://score.crpp.nie.edu.sg/score/index.htm</A></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN>The corpus consists of
teaching materials, classroom interactions, and student artifacts. The current
release data are mainly transcripts of classroom audio/video recordings taped in
more than 350 primary and secondary schools in
Singapore.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2
face=Arial><SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV><STRONG>The Uppsala Student
English corpus</STRONG> (free downloadable data)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial><A
href="http://www.engelska.uu.se/use.html">http://www.engelska.uu.se/use.html</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The corpus consists of 1,489 essays written
by 440 Swedish university students of English at three different levels, the
majority in their first term of full-time studies. The total number of words is
1,221,265, which means an average essay length of 820 words. A typical
first-term essay is somewhat shorter, averaging 777 words.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Dowloadable data at </FONT><A
href="http://www.ota.ox.ac.uk/headers/2457.xml"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>http://www.ota.ox.ac.uk/headers/2457.xml</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The essays cover set topics of different types.
They were written out of class, against a deadline of two to three weeks, length
limitations imposed (usually 700-800 words), and suitable text structure
suggested. First-term students were admitted for both spring (January 20 - June
6) and autumn terms (September 1 - January 19).</FONT> </DIV></SPAN>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT face=Arial><SPAN><FONT
face=Arial></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT face=Arial><SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT face=Arial><SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN>Best
regards,</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2
face=Arial><SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2
face=Arial><SPAN>Mieke</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN>Université
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