The TallVocabL2Fi dataset comprises of responses from 15 participants to a ”tall” 12000 word 5-point scale self-rating response task and a 100 word confirmatory word translation response task. The 15 participants were split by native language, 5 English, 4 Hungarian and 6 Russian, and self-reported CEFR reading level, 5 B1, 4 B2, 5 C1 and 2 C2. The data was gathered through a website from paid participants resident in Finland over a period of 3 months from September and November 2021. In total there are 180 thousand word knowledge self-rating responses and 1.5 thousand word translation responses.
The dataset is unique in its combination of the tall data collection set up, where responses are collected for many words, the varied backgrounds of the learners, the use of Finnish prompt words, and the triangulation with a word translation test. The dataset can be used for vocabulary acquisition research in general, but it is particularly suited to evaluation of the task of Vocabulary Inventory Prediction (VIP) including techniques based on Computer-Adaptive Testing (CAT). The dataset is relational/tabular. It is distributed as a series of TSV files along with a SQL schema exported from DuckDB.
Further information about the schema and the collection process is available in the readme included with the data, and in the accompanying publication: Robertson, F., Chang & L., Söyrinki, S. (2022). TallVocabL2Fi: An Extensive Mapping of 15 Finnish L2 Learners’ Vocabulary. In Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022).
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Testipiste is a language assessment centre for adult migrants. This corpus contains texts written by 2397 different persons, 3 texts from each person. It also contains assignments and other related texts. The essays contain i.a. information on the starting level of their authors, as defined by Testipiste.
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The project studies the diagnosis of reading and writing abilities in a second or foreign language. It seeks to identify the cognitive features which predict a learner’s strengths and weaknesses in those areas. The project brings together scholars from applied linguistics, psychology and assessment to engage in multidisciplinary work and to develop innovative ways of diagnosing the development of second and foreign language abilities.
More information on the corpus: https://www.jyu.fi/dialuki
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Finnish as a second language and English as a foreign language writing performances collected from comprehensive school students (grades 7 – 9) in the project CEFLING – Linguistic Basis of the Common European Framework for L2 English and L2 Finnish. Data from several hundred learners; 4-5 writing tasks from each learner; background information, self-assessments of proficiency.
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https://www.jyu.fi/hytk/fi/laitokset/kivi/tutkimus/hankkeet/paattyneet-tutkimushankkeet/cefling/en/cefling
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The Advanced Finnish Learners’ Corpus (in Finnish Edistyneiden suomenoppijoiden korpus) consists mainly of texts written by non-native MA students of Finnish language. At the end of 2009 it consisted of the following:
– digitalized exam essays,
– digitalized theses,
– other academic writings digitalized.
The subcorpora containing digitalized exam essays (esseet) and course papers (tentit) have been made available at http://korp.csc.fi/
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More information on the corpus: https://www.utu.fi/fi/yliopisto/humanistinen-tiedekunta/suomen-kieli-ja-suomalais-ugrilainen-kielentutkimus/lauseopin-arkisto
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The International Corpus of Learner Finnish (ICLFI) is a corpus of written learner language.
The corpus is morphologically annotated. The texts have been written by students of Finnish as a foreign language from various language backgrounds. They have been compiled with the help of Finnish language teachers around the world.
The corpus contains texts written by basic, independent, and proficient learners of Finnish, and the texts are analyzed according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). The ICLFI comprises a variety of both non-fictional (e.g. essays, argumentative texts) and fictional texts (e.g. narratives, letters). In addition, the corpus provides information on a large number of variables concerning the linguistic background of the learner, the learning task, the learning context, etc.
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The corpus contains Swedish language essays / compositions written by Finnish-speaking students taking the Matriculation examination in 1979-80.
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Topling is a research project of the Department of Languages and Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Jyväskylä. It is financed by the Academy of Finland (2010-2013) and the University of Jyväskylä. It makes use of the data and results of an earlier project called Cefling.
The main objective of the project is to compare cross-sectional and longitudinal sequences of the acquisition of writing skills in Finnish, English and Swedish as second languages in the Finnish educational system (incl. adults).
The cross-sectional data, 1,194 samples for L2 Finnish, 3,154 for L2 English, on a variety of tasks, already exists, rated for level and coded for analyses, with similar data available for Swedish. The longitudinal data (incl. language use outside school) will be collected during this project.
The corpus can be used e.g. to better understand and predict problems in the development of writing proficiency in foreign/second languages.
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