The Learner Corpora of Spoken English: What Has Been Done and What Should Be Done?

Yoon, Soyeon

doi:10.30961/lr.2020.56.1.29

Lang. Res. 56(1):29-51

pISSN: 0254-4474, eISSN: 2586-7113

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30961/lr.2020.56.1.29

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The Learner Corpora of Spoken English: What Has Been Done and What Should Be Done?

Soyeon Yoon ¹ ^, ^†

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¹Incheon National University

^†Corresponding Author: Associate Professor Department of English Language and Literature Incheon National University 119 Academy-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 22012, Korea , E-mail: syyoon@inu.ac.kr

ⓒ Copyright 2020 Language Education Institute, Seoul National University. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Received: Feb 28, 2020 ; Revised: Mar 26, 2020 ; Accepted: Mar 26, 2020

Published Online: Apr 30, 2020

ABSTRACT

The number of spoken learner corpora is smaller than that of written corpora; however, demand for spoken corpora has continuously increased. This study investigates the current state of spoken English-language learner corpora both in the world and in Korea, with a focus on their size, speakers, and genres. Based on this survey, the study discusses factors to consider when building and publishing a spoken learner corpus, especially with respect to the issues of conversation genre, proficiency level, and annotation.

Keywords: spoken corpus; learner corpus; conversation; transcription; annotation

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