NOCE Ana Díaz Negrillo Detmar Meurers Salvador Valera Hernández Holger Wunsch Initial Release NOCE Team
http://purl.org/icall/noce
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This corpus contains written learner language by Spanish students of English at the universities of Granada and Jaén.

Handwritten compositions by university students. The compositions were typed up verbatim, and students' editions of their writing were encoded in editorial tags.

The corpus was compiled and tagged for research into SLA, FLT and NLP. It builds on a section compiled and error-tagged with EARS for Ana Díaz Negrillo's PhD dissertation, documented in "A Fine-grained Error Tagger for Learner Corpora" (2007) and in "EARS: a User's Manual" (2009). The present project includes extension of the original corpus, XML-encoding of the texts and editorial tags, addition of TEI-conformant headers, upgrading of the original error tags and POS annotation of the corpus.

The corpus includes material mainly from the 1st year students of English at the universities of Granada (years 2002-2004 and 2007-2009) and Jan (years 2007-2009). The text collection was organised as a voluntary classroom activity run at three different points through the academic year (beginning-middle-end). In the task learners picked up one of the fourth options in the task sheet, which contained three topics for argumentative writing and one for free-writing. The corpus collection procedures are further documented in Ana Díaz Negrillo's PhD dissertation "A Fine-grained Error Tagger for Learner Corpora" (2007).

 w University of Edinburgh LT-TTT2 Tokenizer, http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/software/lt-ttt2 using LT-TTT2, Version 1.0, released 28 July 2008, based on corpus text including xml error tags The importance of foreign languages nowadays. would like to work in a hotel. would like to teach English in an academy. Expects to know a lot of English when finishing the degree.

Handwritten compositions by university students. The compositions have been typed up.

 JA-A-3-301-1 1 . The Important of Foreign Languages nowadays . I 'm going to speak about the importance of the knowledge of different languages and what is necessary to learn a language . Also , I 'm going to say what are the doors that a different language of your mother tongue can open to you . On the one hand , learning a different language is n't easy if you do n't have any help . , Nowadays , you need to know a different language if you want to work , I 'm not saying that in all jobs you need a language , what i 'm saying is that if you go to an interview and you know a language , you have more possibility to get this job than a person who does n't know any language . On the other hand , if you want to learn so good a language , you have to go to this country and live there for five years more or less and it supposse that you have to stay with different people , out of your family . And it is n't all , you also have to learn the customs of this country , the different taste of the food , etc . Although it can look interesting for people who like the adventure . Finally , I think that learn a different language is a very interesting thing that young people must learn because , in my opinion , if you do n't know a foreign language you have a pendrent thing to do in your life , because it 's a beautiful thing which help you to comunicate yourself with people of other culture who can apport you another way of seeing the life . That 's true that schools are promoting the English because children begin to learn English with 8 years more or less . And it is a very wonderful thing .