Corpora and L2 acquisition: the L1 portuguese - L2 spanish subcorpus of CEDEL2

• Type: Article in National Scientific Journal
• Date: 2021-10

Authors

Lozano, Cristóbal (Author) Other; Teixeira, Joana (Author) FLUP; Madeira, Ana (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística

No. 8

Pages: 137-154

Publisher: Associação Portuguesa de Linguística

Indexing

Crossref

Scientific classification

CORDIS: Humanities > language sciences > Linguistics

Other information

DOI: 10.26334/2183-9077/rapln8ano2021a10

Abstract (EN): This paper presents the L1 Portuguese –L2 Spanish subcorpus of Corpus Escrito del Español L2(CEDEL2), a new methodological resource for second languageacquisition(SLA)research, which is freely searchable and downloadable (http://cedel2.learnercorpora.com). CEDEL2 is a large-scale, multi-L1learner corpus of L2 Spanishwhichcontains written productions from learners at all proficiency levelsas well as 6 native control subcorpora (total size: over 1,100,000 words from over 4,000 participants).CEDEL2 follows strict corpusdesign criteria (Sinclair, 2005)andlearner corpusdesign recommendations (Tracy-Ventura & Paquot, 2021a).In its current version (CEDEL2 v. 2), itsPortuguese component includes an L1 Portuguese –L2 Spanish subcorpus,with 21,662 words written by 164 participants, and anL1 Portuguese native subcorpus, with 3,500 words from 16 L1 speakers of European Portuguese.Thanks to theirdesign features (e.g., same design across subcorpora, inclusion of metadata about SLA-relevant variables, dual native control subcorpora) and freelyavailable web interface, CEDEL2 and its Portuguese subcorporaallow researchersto investigate a wide range of topics in SLA.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific