Corpus PLE

Corpora of PLE

Data collection for learning Portuguese as a second language

Team
Coordination:
Isabel Leiria ( imcleiria@gmail.com )

Transcription, coding and data organization:
Rita Gonçalves ( ritamgg@gmail.com  )

The corpus available here results from the project "Recolha de dados de aprendizagem de português língua estrangeira" (Data collection for learning Portuguese as a second language), held under a protocol between the Camões Institute and the Linguistics Center of the University of Lisbon.

The project's main goal was to collect results of foreign learners of Portuguese to create a database that can support research in Portuguese and, in particular, teacher training and production of educational materials in Portuguese L2. The corpus, now available, is compatible with materials that integrate data collection of other projects, since were used the same collection methodology and the same codes for transcription (see Collection of Corpora PL2 and Leiria 2006). The corpus is a representative empirical data set that is essential for acquisition and learning of PL2.

From October 2008 until October 2010, results were collected from 397 Portuguese L2 learners. The students, at the time of collection, attended courses at different levels (A1-C1), in eighteen universities in the following countries: Austria, Bulgaria, South Korea, Spain, USA, France, India, Italy, Poland, United Kingdom, Czech Republic and Romania.

The following teachers from the Camões Institute collaborated in data collection in these countries: Ana Catarina de Castro, Ana Catarina de Matos, Ana Filipa Velosa, Ana Mendes e Land, Daniel Perdigão, Delfim da Silva, Francisco Nazareth, Hiteshkumar Chimanial Parmar, Joaquim Ramos, José Carlos Dias, Leonor Moura e Silva, Lia Ferreira, Mónica Pereira, Pedro Martins, Sandra Pinheiro e Vanessa Castagna.