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<p class="MsoNormal">Antoine Goulem asked about corpora for high school students who have difficulty writing essays. He might find the BAWE corpus useful,
<a href="http://www.coventry.ac.uk/bawe">www.coventry.ac.uk/bawe</a> . It’s composed of British University student assignments from first year undergraduate up to taught Masters level – they all received relatively high marks and I don’t consider it a ‘learner
corpus’ as such, but it has been used a fair bit to inform academic writing materials and textbooks for both ‘native’ and ‘non-native’ speaker writers. A follow-on project has developed corpus-informed academic writing activities on the British Council Learn
English website <span class="MsoHyperlink"> www.britishcouncil.org/writingfor</span><span class="MsoHyperlink">apurpose</span>. The materials include CALL-style exercises, multimedia files, discipline-specific keyword lists, and links to the BAWE corpus on
SketchEngine - they are intended for students around the world who have to write university assignments in the medium of English. We are continually adding to the site and welcome feedback.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">About two thirds of the assignments in the BAWE corpus were contributed by students who claimed that English was their first language and about a third by students who claimed another language as their L1, but I agree with Antoine that
these distinctions are not necessarily very meaningful in British or Canadian university contexts.
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