First Stage in the Construction of METU Turkish English Exam Corpus (METU TEEC)

Çiler HATİPOĞLU

Makale detayları

First Stage in the Construction of METU Turkish English Exam Corpus (METU TEEC)

Yazarlar:

Çiler HATİPOĞLU

Yayıncı:

Boğazici University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Bogazici University Journal of Education 2013 Vol.30 Issue 1, pp.1-19

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

9/2015

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000896397

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-9567

Anahtar kelimeler:

Özet:

 

This paper presents and discusses the first stages in the construction of the Middle East Technical University Turkish English Exam Corpus (METU TEEC), which has been compiled by a research team at Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. The corpus consists of 1914 Linguistics and ELT exam papers (955483 words in total) written in timed circumstances with no access to reference material by the students at the Foreign Language Education (FLE) department at METU, Ankara between January 2005 and December 2012. The corpus is intended to cater for the needs of both theoreticians/researchers and practitioners/pedagogues; therefore, each of the scripts included in the corpus is tagged with rich meta information about the informants (e.g., age, gender, years of learning English), the exam (e.g., course, type of question, academic year) and exam writers (e.g., educational background, experience). This system allows the compilation of sub-corpora according to the needs and interests of the researchers and practitioners. The first sections of the paper present the context and the needs for such a corpus while the latter sections discuss the development of the coding and tagging systems employed for this corpus.

 

This paper presents and discusses the first stages in the construction of the Middle East Technical University Turkish English Exam Corpus (METU TEEC), which has been compiled by a research team at Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. The corpus consists of 1914 Linguistics and ELT exam papers (955483 words in total) written in timed circumstances with no access to reference material by the students at the Foreign Language Education (FLE) department at METU, Ankara between January 2005 and December 2012. The corpus is intended to cater for the needs of both theoreticians/researchers and practitioners/pedagogues; therefore, each of the scripts included in the corpus is tagged with rich meta information about the informants (e.g., age, gender, years of learning English), the exam (e.g., course, type of question, academic year) and exam writers (e.g., educational background, experience). This system allows the compilation of sub-corpora according to the needs and interests of the researchers and practitioners. The first sections of the paper present the context and the needs for such a corpus while the latter sections discuss the development of the coding and tagging systems employed for this corpus.

Makale detayları

First Stage in the Construction of METU Turkish English Exam Corpus (METU TEEC)

Yazarlar:

Çiler HATİPOĞLU

Yayıncı:

Boğazici University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Bogazici University Journal of Education 2013 Vol.30 Issue 1, pp.1-19

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

9/2015

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000896397

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-9567

Specialised corpus development

learner corpus

exam English

text type

Turkey and Turkish

Sayı

Makale detayları

First Stage in the Construction of METU Turkish English Exam Corpus (METU TEEC)

Yazarlar: Çiler HATİPOĞLU

Yayıncı: Boğazici University

Ana Başlıklar: Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi: Bogazici University Journal of Education 2013 Vol.30 Issue 1, pp.1-19

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 9/2015

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000896397

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

pISSN: 1300-9567

Specialised corpus development

learner corpus

exam English

text type

Turkey and Turkish

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Çiler HATİPOĞLU

Yayıncı:

Boğazici University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Bogazici University Journal of Education 2013 Vol.30 Issue 1, pp.1-19

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

9/2015

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000896397

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-9567