19.2655, FYI: Call for Online Participation: English/Spanish Corpus Data

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Subject: 19.2655, FYI: Call for Online Participation: English/Spanish Corpus Data

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Date: 30-Aug-2008
From: Cristobal Lozano < cristoballozano at ugr.es >
Subject: Call for Online Participation: English/Spanish Corpus Data

 

	
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What is CEDEL2?

- CEDEL2 is a research project at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Universidad de Granada (Spain).
- We are investigating how English-speaking people learn Spanish.
- We are also investigating Spanish native speakers for comparative purposes.
- That is why we are creating a large database called CEDEL2, where around 1600 volunteers worldwide have already participated (amounting to half a million words).

Who can participate? 

- Learners of Spanish (any level) whose mother tongue is English. 
- Native speakers of Spanish.
- If you are a teacher of Spanish, you can ask your students to participate. They will get for free their level of Spanish grammar plus a printed certificate of participation.
 
What do you need to do?

- You need to fill in three EASY online forms about Spanish language. 
- You do NOT need grammar books, dictionaries. We want only REAL and SPONTANEOUS language. 

What can you get from it?

- Learners will be emailed for free their level of Spanish. 
- Both learners and natives will get an official certificate of participation stamped by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. 

Who has already participated?

- Many universities and private volunteers have already participated (USA, UK, New Zealand, Australia, Spain, etc.).
- Over 1600 volunteers have already participated, contributing half a million words.

Participate now:

http://www.uam.es/proyectosinv/woslac/start.htm 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics





 






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