Review: Gilquin, De Cock and Granger (2010) Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: Presses Universitaires de Louvain
Review: Gilquin, De Cock and Granger (2010) Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: Presses Universitaires de Louvain
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评论:Gilquin、De Cock 和 Granger (2010) 鲁汶国际英语口语数据库。
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The Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI) is an important resource for teachers and researchers interested in learning more about spoken learner language from a variety of first languages (L1 s). Work began on LINDSEI in 1995 and is ongoing. The project is directed by Sylviane Granger and co-ordinated by Sylvie De Cock, Gaetanelle Gilquin and Stephanie Petch-Tyson, but it represents the efforts of over forty co-ordinators and collaborators in the eleven countries represented in LINDSEI. LINDSEI currently contains over 1 million words and 130 hours of interviews between learners (L2 speakers of English) and interviewers (in most cases, a native speaker of English). The interviews are, on average, fourteen minutes long and consist of nearly 2,000 words. Learner language represents approximately 792,000 words in total and nearly 1,500 words per interview. Each interview is transcribed orthographically. Minimal prosodic information is provided in the form of pauses (short, medium and long), syllable lengthening, and vowels used in article pronunciation. Filled pauses and backchannels appear in brackets, and foreign words are coded. Due to the inclusion of a relatively constrained (and, thus, less authentic) task in the recordings, the authors choose to describe LINDSEI as a database rather than a corpus. Most importantly, one task, a picture description task, is distinct from the other conversational portions of the interviews. The learners included in LINDSEI are young adult EFL learners of high-intermediate to advanced proficiency. Eleven nationalities are represented, including Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish and Swedish, with approximately fifty learners representing each nationality. In most cases, the L1 background of