On the model of the Brown-Frown and LOB-FLOB corpora, ICLE+30 is meant as a counterpart of the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE), with data of the ICLE type collected 30 years after the original ICLE data. Since the ICLE subcorpora were collected at different time periods, so are the different subcorpora of ICLE+30. The genre is identical to ICLE (argumentative essay writing) and the topics are similar to those commonly used in the corresponding ICLE subcorpus. The types of metadata are essentially the same as in ICLE, but they have been adapted and expanded so as to better take into account current standards in metadata collection.
The comparison of one of the ICLE subcorpora with the corresponding ICLE+30 subcorpus will make it possible to carry out (short-term) diachronic analyses of learner language, investigating whether and how learner language has evolved over the last 30 years. Used on its own, ICLE+30 will also give access to recent learner corpus data that can be analysed in the same way as the ICLE data.
For the rationale behind the compilation of ICLE+30, see:
- Gilquin, Gaëtanelle (2021) Hic sunt dracones: Exploring some terra incognita in learner corpus research. In Anna Čermáková & Markéta Malá (eds) Variation in Time and Space: Observing the World through Corpora (pp. 6586). Berlin: De Gruyter.
- Gilquin, Gaëtanelle (2022) Diachronic learner corpus research: Examining learner language through the lens of time. In Susanne Flach & Martin Hilpert (eds) Broadening the Spectrum of Corpus Linguistics: New Approaches to Variability and Change (pp. 4168). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Project director:
Gaëtanelle Gilquin
Project co-director:
Sylviane Granger