A New Corpus of Student Academic Writing文档.ppt

* “I’ll turn it over to Susan who is going to talk a little more about current projects like this as well as challenges and the future of the project.” * * * A New Corpus of Student Academic Writing Susan Conrad Sarah Albers Department of Applied Linguistics Portland State University Our Objectives for this Presentation Share information about a resource you may want to use Encourage sharing among (American) universities with similar projects Writing from all levels at the university, all departments Overview of the Presentation Background on the project and Portland State Current state of the corpus Ongoing research development; future plans * Background: The “Viking Corpus” Project The beginnings “Corpus Linguistics in Language Teaching” class Web announcement from M.A. student C. Gardes Papers graded B or higher Course, but no assignment info Focused on immediate ESL teaching needs * Project background continued… Realizations More general use for PSU’s ESL program The IELP: ~350 students. Common goal: enter PSU New interest in innovations in curriculum materials, corpus linguistics Potential usefulness in other contexts Other ESL programs PSU more generally Diversity: non-traditional students “University Studies” – no university-wide writing program Time to put effort into the design! * Project background continued… A comment from the “supervising professor” Student initiative Serendipitous convergence of department developments (ESL program integration, MA projects) What do we have what should future students gather? ? Sarah’s project * Documentation and further development Goals for my work on the project: Documentation better understand what was already in the corpus read for paper topics and assignment types Evaluate the organization of the corpus By native-speaker/non-native speaker, student level, or department? How is the corpus going to be used? → Goal is to learn about student writing in general → Organized primarily according to