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Aim of the ICNALE GRA Project : Global Collaboration to Collect Ratings of Asian Learners' L2 English Essays and Speeches from an ELF Perspective

Learner Corpus Studies in Asia and the World

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121-144

神戸大学国際コミュニケーションセンター

2020-12-21

2020-12-21

Various L2 English learner corpora have been compiled to date, and they undoubtedly offer fresh perspectives on the study of learners’ L2 outputs. However, it would be difficult to deepen our understanding of learners’ interlanguage use if we analyzed the learner outputs alone. This paper thus describes the aim and the details of a new research project to collect ratings of Asian learners’ L2 English essays and speeches from a variety of raters with varied L1 and occupational backgrounds. The collected data are to be released as the International Corpus Network of Asian Learner of English, Global Rating Archive (ICNALE GRA). In comparison to the previous projects to collect ratings of learners’ L2 outputs, the ICNALE GRA has four unique features: (1) development of a new rubric combining a holistic evaluation and a 10-category analytical evaluation, (2) evaluation of essays and speeches with the same rubric, (3) establishment of an English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) rating model, and (4) recruitment of more than 100 raters with varied L1 and occupational backgrounds.

English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)

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