Thai English Learner corpus is the corpus of essays collected
from undergraduate students from Chulalongkorn university and
Thammasart university.
The corpus is categorized into two levels
: intermediate learners and advanced learners.
Learners at the Intermediate level are first year students
in different faculties. The corpus size is about 880,000 words. It is composed of 542,000 words (1538 essays) from TU students and 338,000 words (1281 essays)from CU students (Faculty of Arts)
Learners at the advanced level are second year
students in the faculty of Arts, whose major is English. The corpus size is about 66,000 words (54 essays).
Professional TLE are writings of Thai journalists in
two English newspapers, the Nation and Bangkok Post. The corpus size is about 294,000 words (2739 essays).
Essays from Thammasat University's students were collected by
Assist.Prof.Vilaivan Aroonmanakun, Language Institute.
Essays from Chulalongkorn University's students were collected by
Assist.Prof.Prima Mallikamas, Ajarn Somjit Jirananthiporn, and other
faculties in the English department.
Created by Wirote Aroonmanakun. Copyrights 2009.
This project is funded by the National Research Council Thailand
(2008-2010), and supported in part by Chulalongkorn University
Centenary Academic Development Project.
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