A Learners' Corpus of Reading Texts

Full Name
A Learners' Corpus of Reading Texts
Composer
Valérie Kerfelec - Leatitia Leonarduzzi - Gabor Turcsan
Language
English
Other type
Learner
Register
Spoken
Genre
Other
Period
2000-2100 AD
Number of words
< 500.000
Annotation
Other
Annotation remarks

The 37 MP3 files are completed by the transcription of all the 37 texts in PDF. The transcription helps in order to compare the pronunciation of English words by French students. 

Format
Download
Online
Data collection
Elicited
Multimedia
Synchronized
Transcription only
Availability
Open access
Free subscription
Remarks

The corpus contains the reading of 37 non-rehearsed texts produced by 54 French students who are studying in their first year of English licence. The texts are short fragments from multiple literary novels or fabricated texts.