Name of Corpora |
Who collected it |
Type of Lessons |
Type of data |
Where it is available |
Outputs |
Salford Corpus |
Bazergui Hawkins Towell |
12 English L1 University Undergraduates |
Longitudinal Study collected over four years. Recorded data of each individual's productions during a variety of tasks. |
Available on FLLOC website. www.flloc.soton.ac.uk |
Hawkins, Towell and Bazergui 1993 Towell, Hawkins and Bazergui 1996 Hawkins 1998 |
Reading Corpus |
Richards Reading University |
34 adolescents at Welsh secondary school. Also data from 26 native speaker adolescents doing same task for comparison. |
Recorded data of part of GCSE oral exam 'free conversation.' |
Second language data. Available on CHILDES Talkbank. Whole corpus available on FLLOC website. |
Chambers and Richards 1995, Malvern and Richards 2002 |
The Interfra Corpus |
Bartning Stockholm University Sweden |
Different groups of secondary school & university level Swedish learners of French:Group 1: University level:13, Group 2: Secondary school aged 16-17l:22, Group 3: University level: 32, Group 4: Teacher candidates: 6, Group 5: Doctoral students: 6, Group 6: Native speakers: 20. |
Oral one to one interviews. Different oral production tasks. |
Research team plan to have a subset of data available on the web soon. Files coded and analysed with PC Beta (Brodda 1996.) |
Large number of publications, including: Bartning 1997a) and b) Bartning 1998,1999, 2000 and 2002 Bartning, Kihlstedt & Kirchmeyer 1997 |
Lancom Corpus |
KU Leuven University Belgium |
Adolescent Dutch learners of L2 French and French L1 speakers in Belgium and France |
Oral productions Transcribed in standard french orthography. |
18 hours of data available to research community. 14 hours of this is French L2 data available from the 'elicop' website. |
Numerous publications, among them:Debrock and Flament Boistrancourt 1996, Debrock Flament Boistrancourt and Gevaert 1999, Debrock Flament Boistrancourt and Cornette 1999, Flament Boistrancourt 2001,http://bach.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/elicop |
The Progression Project |
R Mitchell, P Dickson University of Southampton |
Adolescent learners in English secondary school aged 11-14 |
Longitudinal study of 60 learners in Secondary school years 7-9. Oral production tasks |
200 hours of digital soundfiles. 650 transcripts available on FLLOC website. |
Mitchell and Dickson 1997; Myles, Hooper and Mitchell 1998; Myles, Mitchell and Hooper 1999; Myles 2003 |
The Linguistic Development Project |
F Myles University of Southampton |
Adolescent learners in English secondary school |
Cross-sectional study of 20 learners in years 9,10 and 11. 4 oral production tasks. |
50 hours of soundfiles and 240 transcripts available on FLLOC website. |
Myles 2002 |
Labeau-Temps Modernes |
E Labeau Aston University |
61 English speaking University Level students |
Oral retelling of extracts from Modern Times. |
Audiotapes and transcripts in Word format and tagged files. Transcribing conventions as in Kilhstedt 1998. not yet available. |
Not Known |
Labeau-Contes de Fées |
E Labeau Aston University |
90 English speaking University Level students |
Oral retelling of Cinderella Written narratives of Cinderella. |
Soundfiles and transcripts in Word format. Transcribing conventions as in Kihlstedt 1998. |
Not Known |
Brussels Corpus |
A Housen Vrije Universiteit Brussels |
150 Dutch adolescents Two groups: ages 13-14 and ages 16-17. |
Interview with participants and Mercer Mayer Frog Narrative. |
Available on FLLOC website. |
Not Known |
Bristol Corpus |
Jeanine Treffers-Daller University of West of England |
Adult learners Year 1:post A level 14 students; Year 1:post GCSE 2 students; Year 2:post A level 18 students; Year 3:13 ILP1+:10 |
Data from comic strip (EO Plauen (1982) Vater und Sohn, Ravensburger Taschenbuch), Soundfiles and transcripts. Transcripts in CHAT format. |
Contact: Jeanine.treffers-daller@uwe.ac.uk |
Not Known |
Guillot Corpus |
Marie-Noälle Guillot University of East Anglia |
University level students and French native speakers for comparison |
Recordings of panel discussion task. |
Contact: m.guillot@uea.ac.uk |
Not Known |