The NEC corpus samples used in the study comprises 433 examination responses (essays) written in L2 English on two topics, namely, The importance of volunteering for young people (from the English examination of 2012, coded as ‘1’; see the code explanation in the description file), and Studying abroad: advantages and disadvantages (from the pilot examination of 2012, coded as ‘2’). The total number of words in the sample is 89,232.
Reference
Juknevičienė, R. and I. Šeškauskienė. (2014). The National Examination of English in Lithuania: Searching for Evidence of CEFR Criterial Achievement Levels. Studies About Languages, 25, 88–96. https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.sal.0.25.8579.
