22.496, Software: Spoken Learner Corpus of English LINDSEI

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Subject: 22.496, Software: Spoken Learner Corpus of English LINDSEI

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Date: 27-Jan-2011
From: Sylviane Granger [sylviane.granger at uclouvain.be]
Subject: Spoken Learner Corpus of English LINDSEI
 

	
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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:24:51
From: Sylviane Granger [sylviane.granger at uclouvain.be]
Subject: Spoken Learner Corpus of English LINDSEI

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We are pleased to announce the release of the Louvain International 
Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI) handbook and 
CD-ROM. 

The corpus contains interviews with higher intermediate to advanced 
EFL learners of English from 11 mother tongue backgrounds 
(Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, 
Polish, Spanish and Swedish), totalling over one million words, of which 
almost 800,000 were produced by learners. This represents 554 
interviews.

A total of 23 variables have been encoded for each interview, giving 
information about the learner (L1, age, gender, number of years of 
English at school, time spent in an English-speaking country, etc), the 
interviewer (mother tongue, status in relation to the learner, etc) and 
the interview itself (duration, institution where it was recorded, etc.

The search interface allows users to select interviews matching a set of 
predefined (learner, interviewer and interview) variables. The 
accompanying handbook contains a detailed description of the corpus 
and a user's manual.

There are three types of academic licence: single user, multiple-user 
(2-10) and multiple-user (11-25). 

The corpus can be ordered online at 
http://www.i6doc.com/en/collections/cdlindsei/

Best wishes,

Sylviane Granger, Gaëtanelle Gilquin & Sylvie De Cock
Centre for English Corpus Linguistics
University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) 
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)




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