[Corpora-List] L2 Learner Corpora

Mon Dec 29 02:27:06 UTC 2008

Thanks, Dr Guo, for your generous sharing of information.

Mieke, there is also a corpus of Malaysian learner English. This is a corpus of learners between 11 and 16 years old. A PhD study and an MRes have been derived from it. Do contact Dr Arshad (arshad at educ.upm.edu.my) for more information and permission to use it.

Hope this helps.

Very best wishes,
Meng Huat

--- On Mon, 29/12/08, Xiaotian Guo <garlickfred at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Xiaotian Guo <garlickfred at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] L2 Learner Corpora
To: "Mieke van der Velden" <mieke at club-internet.fr>
Cc: Corpora at uib.no
Date: Monday, 29 December, 2008, 7:50 AM

Hi, Mieke
Did you know CLEC, a written English corpus by Chinese students of different levels? Search queries can be made online at http://www.clal.org.cn/corpus/EngSearchEngine.aspx. But if you wish to have the whole corpus, you may purchase a book which has a CD disk attached to its back cover.
Gui S. and Yang H. 2002. Chinese Learner English Corpus. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Languages Education Press.
There is another written corpus consisting Chinese students' written English called WECCL (maybe named differently now). You may like to contact Professor WEN Qiufang or Dr. LIANG Maocheng for its availability. I am sure there are many more learner corpora in China now, either written or spoken. When you contact these two professionals, you might get more information from them. They are working in The National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education in Beijing (http://www.sinotefl.ac.cn/english.asp).
Also in 2006, I completed a PhD thesis in learner English under Professor Susan Hunston in Birmingham. Part of Chapter Two reviews learner corpora of that time. Though a bit out of date, you might find some information useful. Most importantly, you may find some clues which will direct you to find many other learner corpora there, I believe. The thesis has been published by Linguistics Journal and is freely downloadable now at http://www.linguistics-journal.com/thesis.php.
Hope this is useful.
Best wishes,
Dr. Xiaotian Guo
New Vision Language Centre
www.language-centre.co.uk

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Mieke van der Velden <mieke at club-internet.fr> wrote:

Dear listmembers,

I am looking for freely accessible learner corpora of english texts written by learners with different L1 backgrounds. I have been searching the internet, and so far I have found the following corpora:

- Longman Learners' Corpus (requests for a research access have gone unanswered so far)
- ICLE Corpus (research access has been refused)
- Cambridge Learner Corpus (not available for research purposes)

I am also aware of the MAELC corpus. However, this is a corpus of adult learners, and I would prefer texts written by younger learners.

Is anyone on the list aware of any other learner corpora of this kind that would be freely accessible for research purposes?

With best regards,

Mieke
Université Nancy2

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