Abstract
This paper describes the process of design and compilation of the Primary Education Learners’ English Corpus (PELEC), a learner corpus which includes written (14,577 words) and spoken materials (47,032 words) from Primary Education learners in the Autonomous Community of Cantabria. It is composed of data from a total of 252 students in the fourth and sixth grade of Primary Education (aged 9–10 and 11–12, respectively) who were studying in five different state schools which followed either a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) or an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) approach.
Highlights
Over the past three decades, the role of computer learner corpora, i.e. “systematic computerized collections of texts produced by language learners” (Nesselhauf 2004: 125), has become of paramount importance in the field of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching
This paper presents the characteristics of The Primary Education Learners’ English Corpus ( PELEC), which was compiled in 2018 by a team of researchers at the University of Cantabria with the aim of gathering data from primary students in the Autonomous Community of Cantabria
Given that PELEC contains data from Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and non-CLIL state schools in Spain, the results gathered from its analysis may help to advance in the field of Second Language Acquisition research, and in the realms of language teaching, language planning and language policies
Summary
Over the past three decades, the role of computer learner corpora, i.e. “systematic computerized collections of texts produced by language learners” (Nesselhauf 2004: 125), has become of paramount importance in the field of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. This paper presents the characteristics of The Primary Education Learners’ English Corpus ( PELEC), which was compiled in 2018 by a team of researchers at the University of Cantabria with the aim of gathering data from primary students in the Autonomous Community of Cantabria. This corpus includes both written and spoken materials from Primary Education learners of English as a second language and totals 61,609 words. In the remainder of this paper, we will set forth the process of compilation and main characteristics of PELEC, a learner corpus featuring spoken and written data from L1-Spanish young learners of English
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