A-course

Essay 1, 'English, My English' : 63 essays

Essay 2, Argumaentation: 57 essays

Essay 3, Reflections: 54 essays

Essay 4, Literature: 44 essays

Essay 5, Culture course assignment: 22 essays (not written by teacher trainees, 1-7)

Over 60 essays altogether (details to be added)

C-course

Only 8 essays submitted this term

During the autumn term, 1999, the data collection was continued, this term from both the first-term students (A-course) and second term students (B-course). The turn-out was slightly lower this term, possibly because the students were asked to hand in their diskettes to the project themselves, without being reminded by their tutors. A consideable amont of data was nevertheless collected, and is now being converted to text format for inclusion in the corpus. A slight draw-back for the project was that the number of students on the B-course this term was very low, with the consequuence that the material from that course is not, yet, as considerable as could be hoped for.

The project was represented at the KORFU conference in November, where two papers relating to the project were presented. A short presentation was also published in the ASLA-infomation publication (further information on the Presentations and publications page).

Essay 1, 'English, My English' : 83 essays

Essay 2, Argumaentation: 68 essays

Essay 3, Reflections: 56 essays

Essay 4, Literature: 50 essays

Essay 5, Culture course assignment: 40 essays

Over 90 essays altogether (details to be added)

The work on the project during the first term, spring 1999, was focussed on collecting material and converting it into uniform corpus format. The turn-out was very good. Well over 100 students on the A-course (first-term students) registered to join the project, and although not every one handed in all five essays we still got a considerable amount of data (details below). All names were removed from the essays and the files were converted to a uniform format. The corpus now contains 440 essays, totalling about 250,000 words. In addition to the actual corpus, a database was created (by Karin Hansson) where all the back-ground data was coded. It is now possible to identify the corpus files by various criteria, such as student age, first language, time spent abroad, etc. The texts have been annotated with part-of-speech tags (external link) by Klas Prütz, Department of Linguistics. For more detailed information, click HERE.

The project was presented at two conferences, the Parallellkorpussymposium and the ICAME conference (further information on the Presentations and publications page).

Essay 1, 'English, My English' : 116 essays

Essay 2, Argumaentation: 106 essays

Essay 3, Reflections: 95 essays

Essay 4, Literature: 73 essays

Essay 5, Culture course assignment: 50 essays (not part of curriculum for some of the teacher trainees)

For further information, see also the Follow-up information distributed at the beginning of the autumn term, 1999.

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