Towards building a usable corpus collection for the ELT classroom
Towards building a usable corpus collection for the ELT classroom
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为 ELT 课堂构建可用的语料库集合
DOI：
10.1163/9789401203906_005
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发表时间：
2007
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通讯作者：
Chikako Nishigaki
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作者：
K. Chujo;M. Utiyama;Chikako Nishigaki
尽管语料库在第二语言习得中的应用潜力是诱人的，但我们教育工作者似乎在如何让学习者理解语料库的问题上跌跌撞撞。本研究探讨了根据难度水平对语篇样本进行评估的各种标准，以提供一组可供教育工作者在英语课堂上使用的英日平行语料库，并提供了评估工具和方法，以便教育工作者能够评估他们自己的课堂材料。数据来自两个英日平行语料库，使用7项指标(可读性分数、平均词长、日语教科书词汇覆盖率、BNC文本覆盖率、日语词汇率、句子长度和汉字字符比率)来测量英语和日语文本的语言难度。据指出，该文集中的大多数文本都是高级文本，初学者缺乏版权可用的电子文本数据。然而，这项研究确定了几个适用的指数，提供了不同难度级别的标题评级集合，并使语料库的使用更接近其理想应用。
As tantalizing as the potential for corpus application is in second language acquisition, we educators seem to stumble over how to make concordancing lines understandable for learners. This study explores various criteria for evaluating text samples by difficulty level in order to provide a collection of rated parallel English-Japanese corpus texts which educators can use in ELT classrooms, and provides the rating tools and methodology so that educators can evaluate their own classroom material. Data was collected from two English-Japanese parallel corpora, and seven indices (readability scores, average word length, Japanese school textbook vocabulary coverage, BNC text coverage, Japanese vocabulary ratio, sentence length, and kanji character ratios) were applied to measure the linguistic difficulty of both English and Japanese text samples. It was noted that most of the texts in the collection were advanced level, and that there is a shortage of copyright available e-text data at the beginner level. Nevertheless, this study identifies several applicable indices, provides a rated collection of titles at varying levels of difficulty, and takes corpus usage one step closer to its ideal application.