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| ===Learner corpus of written academic English by advanced L2 English university students, whose L1 is Czech.=== | ===Learner corpus of written academic English by advanced L2 English university students, whose L1 is Czech.=== |
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| The learner corpus VESPA_CZ was created as part of the international project VESPA ([[https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl/vespa.html|The Varieties of English for Specific Purposes dAtabase | The learner corpus **VESPA_CZ** was created as part of the international project VESPA ([[https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl/vespa.html|The Varieties of English for Specific Purposes dAtabase |
| ]]), organized by the [[https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl|Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Université catholique de Louvain]]. The aim of the project, which was initiated in 2008, is to build a database of English academic writing by L2 English university students from various mother tongue backgrounds. The corpus will comprise a wide range of disciplines (e.g. linguistics, business, biology) and registers (e.g. essays, reports, MA dissertations). The first release of the corpus (over 2 million words, available at https://corpora.uclouvain.be/cecl/vespa/home) contains texts written by university students in The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Norway and Sweden). Apart from the subcorpus with L1 Czech background, subcorpora with L1 French, German, and Turkish are currently under development, as well as a comparable corpus of native English student writing. | ]]), organized by the [[https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl|Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Université catholique de Louvain]]. The aim of the project, which was initiated in 2008, is to build a database of English academic writing by L2 English university students from various mother tongue backgrounds. The corpus will comprise a wide range of disciplines (e.g. linguistics, business, biology) and registers (e.g. essays, reports, MA dissertations). The first release of the corpus (over 2 million words, available at https://corpora.uclouvain.be/cecl/vespa/home) contains texts written by university students in The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Norway and Sweden). Apart from the subcorpus with L1 Czech background, subcorpora with L1 French, German, and Turkish are currently under development, as well as a comparable corpus of native English student writing. |
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| ===References=== | ===References=== |
| * Ebeling, Signe O. and Alois Heuboeck. 2007. Encoding document information in a corpus of student writing: The British Academic Written English Corpus. Corpora 2/2: 241–256. | * Ebeling, Signe O. and Alois Heuboeck. 2007. Encoding document information in a corpus of student writing: The British Academic Written English Corpus. Corpora 2/2: 241–256. |
| * Heuboeck, Alois, Jasper Holmes and Hilary Nesi. 2008. The BAWE Corpus Manual. http://www.reading.ac.uk/AcaDepts/ll/app_ling/internal/bawe/BAWE.documentat ion.pdf | * Heuboeck, Alois, Jasper Holmes and Hilary Nesi. 2008. The BAWE Corpus Manual. http://www.reading.ac.uk/AcaDepts/ll/app_ling/internal/bawe/BAWE.documentation.pdf |
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| | ====== How to cite VESPA_CZ ====== |
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| | Malá, M. – Brůhová, G. – Vašků, K.: //VESPA_CZ: Learner corpus of written academic English, version 1, 21 Dec 2022//. Ústav Českého národního korpusu FF UK, Praha 2022. Dostupný z WWW: http://www.korpus.cz |
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