Sessions

Developing a Multimodal Learner Corpus

This pilot study looks at the extent learners’ L2 vocabulary affects lexical diversity across academic writing, academic presentation (written for speaking), and academic discussions. This was done by examining the relationship between students’ (n=46) L2 vocabulary size, as measured by Webb, Sasao, and Ballance’s (2017) updated vocabulary levels test (uVLT), and the lexical diversity of their texts over the three modes of production as measured by McCarthy’s (2005) measure of textual lexical diversity (MTLD).

A Multimodal, Longitudinal Corpus Project

This talk introduces a project to create a multimodal, longitudinal learner corpus to be made available to researchers both in and outside the creators’ university setting. The corpus design includes two years of longitudinal learner data from a university English language program including three modes of communication: discussion, presentation, and academic writing. This type of data can be used to conduct cross-modal studies, investigate longitudinal trends or, in combination with other corpora, contrastive interlanguage analysis.