| dc.contributor.author |
Juknevičienė, Rita |
| dc.contributor.author |
Vilkaitė-Lozdienė, Laura |
| dc.contributor.author |
Kasteckienė, Jurga |
| dc.contributor.author |
Salei, Palina |
| dc.date.accessioned |
2025-11-13T10:52:58Z |
| dc.date.available |
2025-11-13T10:52:58Z |
| dc.date.issued |
2025-11-14 |
| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11821/74 |
| dc.description |
Information about LOCOLE
This corpus comprises essays written by university students of English Philology over the course of one academic year. The essays were collected four times during the 2024-2025 academic year. They were all written by hand in the classroom, without access to any reference tools. The essays were manually keyboarded, preserving the authentic learner writing, including non-standard spelling, language use, and punctuation. Essay topics are provided in Table 1 below.
Table 1. Essays in the corpus
Cohort Essay topic Number of essays Date of data collection
1. Is education the key to success? 28 September
2. University pressures 26 October
3. Can AI replace human teachers? 29 January
4. Linguistic theories have no place outside academia 26 May
109 in total
Text ID
Each text in the corpus has a unique ID code, for example, 1_F_01. The first number in the code represents the cohorts by the time of data collection and topic prompt. The last number codes each participant's sequential number in the list (see the CSV file). The letter indicates the gender of the participant:
- F stands for ‘Female’,
- M stands for “Male’,
- O stands for ‘Other’,
- N shows that the participant preferred not to indicate their gender.
More detailed information about the participants is available in the attached CSV file.
Funding sources
The digitization of the corpus was supported by the Research Council of Lithuania as a Student Summer Internship project. |
| dc.language.iso |
eng |
| dc.publisher |
Vilnius University |
| dc.rights |
ACA_CLARIN-LT_End-User-Licence-Agreement_EN-LT |
| dc.rights.uri |
https://clarin.vdu.lt/licenses/eula/ACA_CLARIN-LT_End-User-Licence-Agreement_EN-LT.htm |
| dc.rights.label |
ACA |
| dc.source.uri |
https://web.vu.lt/flf/r.jukneviciene/?page_id=938 |
| dc.subject |
learner corpus |
| dc.subject |
longitudinal corpus |
| dc.subject |
L2 English |
| dc.subject |
argumentative essays |
| dc.title |
LOCOLE (Longitudinal Corpus of Learner English) |
| dc.type |
corpus |
| metashare.ResourceInfo#ContentInfo.mediaType |
text |
| has.files |
yes |
| branding |
CLARIN-LT |
| demo.uri |
https://web.vu.lt/flf/r.jukneviciene/?page_id=938 |
| contact.person |
Rita Juknevičienė rita.jukneviciene@flf.vu.lt Vilnius University |
| sponsor |
Vilnius University, LMT to be added Student Intership Project Other |
| sponsor |
Vilnius University and Lithuanian Research Council S-SV-25-87 Development of lexical competence in L2 English writing: A longitudinal study nationalFunds |
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109 files |
| size.info |
109 files |
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121507 |
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2 |
