LINGUIST List 22.496 Thu Jan 27 2011 Software: Spoken Learner Corpus of English LINDSEI Editor for this issue: Justin Petro <justinlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Sylviane Granger , Spoken Learner Corpus of English LINDSEI Message 1: Spoken Learner Corpus of English LINDSEI Date: 27-Jan-2011 From: Sylviane Granger <sylviane.grangeruclouvain.be> Subject: Spoken Learner Corpus of English LINDSEI E-mail this message to a friend We are pleased to announce the release of the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI) handbook and CD-ROM. The corpus contains interviews with higher intermediate to advanced EFL learners of English from 11 mother tongue backgrounds (Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish and Swedish), totalling over one million words, of which almost 800,000 were produced by learners. This represents 554 interviews. A total of 23 variables have been encoded for each interview, giving information about the learner (L1, age, gender, number of years of English at school, time spent in an English-speaking country, etc), the interviewer (mother tongue, status in relation to the learner, etc) and the interview itself (duration, institution where it was recorded, etc. The search interface allows users to select interviews matching a set of predefined (learner, interviewer and interview) variables. The accompanying handbook contains a detailed description of the corpus and a user's manual. There are three types of academic licence: single user, multiple-user (2-10) and multiple-user (11-25). The corpus can be ordered online at http://www.i6doc.com/en/collections/cdlindsei/ Best wishes, Sylviane Granger, Gaëtanelle Gilquin & Sylvie De Cock Centre for English Corpus Linguistics University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics                             Computational Linguistics                             Language Acquisition                             Text/Corpus Linguistics Subject Language(s): English (eng) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 27-Jan-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.