Spanish Corpus Proficiency Level Training Website and Corpus
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Dale Koike
Abstract
Based on previous research on second language learner oral proficiency (e.g. Omaggio Hadley 2001) and related teacher training (e.g. Liskin-Gasparro 2003), the Spanish Corpus Proficiency Level Training website offers an open, online training resource on Spanish learner proficiency levels for future and current Spanish teachers. It provides 327 videotaped segments of 38 learners, including 17 U.S. Spanish heritage learners, of various Spanish proficiency levels who answer the same set of interview questions. The site and the corpus of videotapes offer implications for teachers to help guide their students towards proficiency goals.
Given the richness of the video bank, it has shown itself to be useful to goals of corpus linguistics. To illustrate, we examine pronominal subject expression in oral speech by the Spanish heritage language learners of three levels of linguistic proficiency in the corpus. We analyze the learners’ sensitivity to conditioning variables that have been found to affect pronominal expression in Spanish by Spanish heritage speakers in the U.S. The chapter concludes with feedback from site users and suggestions for other uses of the corpus.
Abstract
Based on previous research on second language learner oral proficiency (e.g. Omaggio Hadley 2001) and related teacher training (e.g. Liskin-Gasparro 2003), the Spanish Corpus Proficiency Level Training website offers an open, online training resource on Spanish learner proficiency levels for future and current Spanish teachers. It provides 327 videotaped segments of 38 learners, including 17 U.S. Spanish heritage learners, of various Spanish proficiency levels who answer the same set of interview questions. The site and the corpus of videotapes offer implications for teachers to help guide their students towards proficiency goals.
Given the richness of the video bank, it has shown itself to be useful to goals of corpus linguistics. To illustrate, we examine pronominal subject expression in oral speech by the Spanish heritage language learners of three levels of linguistic proficiency in the corpus. We analyze the learners’ sensitivity to conditioning variables that have been found to affect pronominal expression in Spanish by Spanish heritage speakers in the U.S. The chapter concludes with feedback from site users and suggestions for other uses of the corpus.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
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Section 1. Introduction
- Spanish learner corpus research 3
- What is missing in learner corpus design? 33
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Section 2. Compilation, annotation and exploitation of learner corpus data
- Learner Spanish on computer 55
- PoS-tagging a Spanish oral learner corpus 89
- The LANGSNAP longitudinal learner corpus 117
- The Aprescrilov corpus, or broadening the horizon of Spanish language learning in Flanders 143
- Spanish Corpus Proficiency Level Training Website and Corpus 169
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Section 3. Analysis of learner corpus data
- Factors that can have an impact on the processes of perceiving Spanish/L2 199
- Pragmatic principles in anaphora resolution at the syntax-discourse interface 235
- Discourse markers in CEDEL2 and SPLLOC corpora of learner Spanish 267
- A corpus study of Spanish as a Foreign Language learners’ collocation production 299
- Index 333
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
-
Section 1. Introduction
- Spanish learner corpus research 3
- What is missing in learner corpus design? 33
-
Section 2. Compilation, annotation and exploitation of learner corpus data
- Learner Spanish on computer 55
- PoS-tagging a Spanish oral learner corpus 89
- The LANGSNAP longitudinal learner corpus 117
- The Aprescrilov corpus, or broadening the horizon of Spanish language learning in Flanders 143
- Spanish Corpus Proficiency Level Training Website and Corpus 169
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Section 3. Analysis of learner corpus data
- Factors that can have an impact on the processes of perceiving Spanish/L2 199
- Pragmatic principles in anaphora resolution at the syntax-discourse interface 235
- Discourse markers in CEDEL2 and SPLLOC corpora of learner Spanish 267
- A corpus study of Spanish as a Foreign Language learners’ collocation production 299
- Index 333
