The JEFLL (Japanese EFL Learner) Corpus

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title
  • The JEFLL (Japanese EFL Learner) Corpus
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
  • JEFLL Corpus
creator
  • researcher Director: Dr Yukio Tono (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
subject
  • a collection of free compositions written by more than 10,000 Japanese-speaking learners of English
subject.linguisticField
  • applied_linguistics
  • text_and_corpus_linguistics
subject.monoMultilingual
  • multilingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • It consists of the subjects ranging from novice to intermediate levels, covering mainly junior and senior high school students in Japan. The essay task is carefully controlled so that each subcorpus can be comparable across topics, proficiency, school years, school types, among others.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
  • free
description.language
  • English
  • Japanese
description.inputDevice
description.inputEnvironment
description.speakingStyle
description.speechMode
description.samplingRate
description.additionalData
publisher
  • Shogakukan Inc.
contributor
contributor.attribute.author.motherTongue
  • non_native
contributor.attribute.author.dialect
contributor.attribute.author.level
  • amateur
contributor.attribute.author.age
contributor.attribute.author.gender
  • male
  • female
contributor.attribute.speaker.motherTongue
contributor.attribute.speaker.dialect
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
date.created
date.issued
date.modified
  • available in 2008
type
  • Text
type.discourseType
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • education It aims to focus on spontaneous written production by L2 learners, without the help of dictionaries or any careful revision work.
type.style
  • written
type.form
  • unfixed
type.sentence
  • short
  • long
type.annotation
  • annotated CLAWS C7 tagset (Lancaster)
type.annotationSample
  • UCREL CLAWS7 Tagset
    APPGE possessive pronoun, pre-nominal (e.g. my, your, our)
    AT article (e.g. the, no)
    AT1 singular article (e.g. a, an, every)
    BCL before-clause marker (e.g. in order (that),in order (to))
    CC coordinating conjunction (e.g. and, or)
    CCB adversative coordinating conjunction ( but)
    CS subordinating conjunction (e.g. if, because, unless, so, for)
    CSA as (as conjunction)
    CSN than (as conjunction)
    CST that (as conjunction)
    CSW whether (as conjunction)
    DA after-determiner or post-determiner capable of pronominal function (e.g. such, former, same)
    DA1 singular after-determiner (e.g. little, much)
    DA2 plural after-determiner (e.g. few, several, many)
    DAR comparative after-determiner (e.g. more, less, fewer)
    DAT superlative after-determiner (e.g. most, least, fewest)
    DB before determiner or pre-determiner capable of pronominal function (all, half)
    DB2 plural before-determiner ( both)
    DD determiner (capable of pronominal function) (e.g any, some)
    DD1 singular determiner (e.g. this, that, another)

    The rest is omitted.

    http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/claws7tags.html
type.sample
format.extent
  • The corpus size is approximately 700,000 words
format.medium
  • online
format.encoding
format.markup
format.functionality
  • SCNの検索ソフト
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
source
  • more than 10,000 students' free compositions
language
  • English
language.area
  • Japan
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
coverage.spacial
rights
  • the entire data will be distributed under license in the future
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