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• Korean English Learners’ Spoken Corpus (KELSC)

Institutional Review Boards (IRB) Statement: Project Number 7007971-202004-001

• • Target language: English
  • First language: Korean
  • Medium: Spoken
  • Task type:
    1. Two speaking tests using real-time video conferencing software
    2. Integrated Tasks
       • Listen to a passage (60 seconds, 90~100 words) and summarize the context of the listened passage. Preparation time: 60 seconds, Response time: 60 seconds.
       • Read a passage (60 seconds, 110~120 words) and summarize the context of the read passage. Preparation time: 60 seconds, Response time: 60 seconds.
         
  • Proficiency level: Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2 [Official translations of the CEFR Global Scale, Council of Europe (PDF)], [The Association Between TOEFL iBT Test Scores and the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) Levels (PDF)], [Linking TOEFL iBT Scores to IELTS Scores – A Research Report (PDF)]
    
  • Participants: 237 (e.g. undergraduate & postgraduate students in 10 different Korean universities, office workers, housewives, etc.). 
  • Size in words: 36,588
  • Citation:
    • [한국어] 정채관. (2021). 한국인 영어 학습자 구어 코퍼스: 설계와 구축. 외국어교육연구, 35(3), 209-223. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.16933/sfle.2021.35.3.209
    • [ENGLISH] Jung, Chae Kwan. (2021). Designing and building the Korean English Learners’ Spoken Corpus (KELSC). Studies in Foreign Language Education, 35(3), 209-223. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.16933/sfle.2021.35.3.209

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Korean corpora

• 모두의 말뭉치(Everyone’s Corpus), developed by National Institute of Korean Language

Corpus reading list

• Corpus journals & books

ICR awards

• ICR Outstanding Corpus Thesis Award

Corpus conferences, workshops, lecttures

• Introduction to Corpus Linguistics

Online text archive

• Oxford Text Archive (OTA)
• Project Gutenberg

Online English corpora

• General corpora
  • British National Corpus (BNC)web
• Specialised corpora
  • Business Letter Corpus (Online KWIC Concordancer)
  • Hong Kong Financial Services Corpus
  • TED Corpus Search Engine (TCSE) – inc. video & translation (English -> Korean)
• Miscellaneous
  • WebCorp (Concordance the web in real-time)

Online classroom activities

• Just TheWord (a list of collocations)
• Phrases in English
• Word-Neighbors (bigger than JustTheWord with language learning exercises)
• Corpus Eye

WordSmith Tools 7 manual

• 워드스미스 7 한국어 사용법(Step-by-step guide to WordSmith Tools 7, translated by CK Jung)

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