Univerzita Pardubice Fakulta filozofická

Univerzita Pardubice

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Publikace detail

Corpus of university students’ interviews

Autoři: Ježková Šárka

Rok: 2014

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

Tituly:

Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Corpus of university students’ interviews	Building a corpus of spoken learner English is one of the goals of a bigger multidimensional project called “Aspects of English Language Acquisition of Czech Students on the Onset of Teacher Education”. It is carried out at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Pardubice, and aims at identifying factors influencing the process of learning English as a foreign language by Czech speakers. After the analysis of previous pilot stage, the process of compilation was designed as collecting audio-recordings of the first year students’ interviews, transcribed by the students themselves and then checked by the research team. Thus the corpus comprises more than fifty dialogues and one hundred monologues. Tagging the corpus seems to be the biggest issue since it should be used for multiple purposes: (a) grammar and discourse analysis of students’ performances and (b) identification of the most frequent deviations and errors analysed with respect to the second language acquisition processes and considered within the background of systemic differences between English and Czech languages. Especially for error analysis it remains a question if tagging (including emendation and error categorizing) can serve as an effective tool since it includes error interpretation which can be relatively subjective.	learner corpus; corpus annotation; English language; types of errors