Development of a multi-level, multi-genre learner corpus academic writing

Project Type: Node
Project Start Date: 1 March 2017
Project Status: Completed

Project Aims:

Development of a multi-genre, multi-level learner corpus of academic writing in order to develop, refine and implement an online academic writing tool.

Project Deliverables:

1. Corpus Data Collection Texts

1.1 Medata for contribution as per protocol designed for first phase of project

2. Annotation

2.1 Surface annotation (POS tagging, lemmatising and chunking) of 50 000 words running text in Afrikaans and English

2.2 Deep annotation (error tagging according to the tag set developed for the first phase) of 50 000 words running text in Afrikaans and English

3. Pedagogical Resources

3.1 Academic Writing videos 10X

3.2 Academic writing tips and techniques 10X

3.3 Academic writing exercises 40X (4x for each of the ten topics)

3.4 Academic word list/dictionary

3.5 At least 1000 entries with different parts of speech and contextualised examples

3.6 Four languages: Setswana, IsiZulu, Afrikaans, English: Afrikaans and English as baseline;translation will follow for the African languages

4. Distribution

4.1 Formatting and publishing

4.2 Layout and press ready material for use on SADiLaR repository