TY - JOUR
T1 - A multilingual learner corpus for less commonly taught languages
AU - Sommer-Farias, Bruna
AU - Novikov, Aleksey
AU - Picoral, Adriana
AU - Centanin-Bertho, Mariana
AU - Staples, Shelley
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© John Benjamins Publishing Company.
PY - 2022/12/31
Y1 - 2022/12/31
N2 - This article provides a detailed account of the framework, pedagogical and research applications of the Multilingual Academic Corpus of Assignments – Writing and Speech (MACAWS).1 MACAWS is a monitor learner corpus of written and oral assignments produced by foreign language learners in the context of their language learning classrooms. Currently the corpus focuses on two less commonly taught languages rarely represented in learner corpora, Portuguese and Russian, and contains 124,054 words in Russian and 536,168 in Portuguese, being updated each semester as new texts are added to the corpus. The online interface is designed for ease of use by teachers and students. Our novel interactive data-driven learning (iDDL) tool allows embedding of concordance lines into websites and learning management systems (LMS), facilitating student interaction with concordance lines. Researchers can gain access to an offline corpus for greater flexibility.
AB - This article provides a detailed account of the framework, pedagogical and research applications of the Multilingual Academic Corpus of Assignments – Writing and Speech (MACAWS).1 MACAWS is a monitor learner corpus of written and oral assignments produced by foreign language learners in the context of their language learning classrooms. Currently the corpus focuses on two less commonly taught languages rarely represented in learner corpora, Portuguese and Russian, and contains 124,054 words in Russian and 536,168 in Portuguese, being updated each semester as new texts are added to the corpus. The online interface is designed for ease of use by teachers and students. Our novel interactive data-driven learning (iDDL) tool allows embedding of concordance lines into websites and learning management systems (LMS), facilitating student interaction with concordance lines. Researchers can gain access to an offline corpus for greater flexibility.
KW - Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL)
KW - interactive data-driven learning (iDDL)
KW - multilingual
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U2 - 10.1075/ijlcr.21001.som
DO - 10.1075/ijlcr.21001.som
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85147776307
SN - 2215-1478
VL - 8
SP - 261
EP - 282
JO - International Journal of Learner Corpus Research
JF - International Journal of Learner Corpus Research
IS - 2
ER -