ERIC Number: EJ1431124
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
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Input and Output in an English Classroom: A Young Learner Corpus of English (YoLeCorE)
Thomas Zapounidis; Marina Mattheoudakis
Journal of Educational Research and Innovation, v12 n1 Article 1 2024
This article highlights the need for a new type of corpus that will combine both a learner and a pedagogic corpus. The need for such a type of corpus is underlined by the interaction between input and output and the expected impact of the former on the latter within all instructional settings. Such a corpus will allow us to collect data, including teacher language, learner language, coursebook content, etc. and relate it to students' output at specific points in time. Our study aims to present and describe the "Young Learner Corpus of English" (henceforth, "YoLeCorE"), which is an example of a combined pedagogic and learner corpus. "YoLeCorE" consists of 1,5 million tokens and includes both the input and the output of 17 Greek young learners (aged 8-9) of English as a foreign language. "YoLeCorE"'s unique characteristic is that it includes not mere samples of learner language, but all the language that each and every one of the students listened to, read, or produced -- orally and in writing -- during a whole school year. It includes four distinct sub-corpora (one for each language skill) and allows researchers to conduct a variety of analyses and thus track the process of instructed second language acquisition.
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Linguistic Input, Oral Language, Written Language, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship, Classroom Communication, Course Content, Textbooks
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Greece
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