William Crawford

Multiple perspectives on learner interaction: The corpus of collaborative oral tasks (Mouton De Gruyter)

This project uses the Corpus of Collaborative Oral Tasks (CCOT), a collection of 775 spoken tasks (268,324 words) carried out by dyads of L2 English speakers. The tasks were originally used for formative assessment purposes at a U.S. intensive English program. The corpus contains:

• 576 participants from different L1 backgrounds, including Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, and Pashto (primarily Arabic and Chinese speakers)

• Three levels of proficiency

  • Level 1: scores corresponding to 32-44 on the TOEFL iBT

  • Level 2: scores corresponding to 45-56 on the TOEFL iBT

  • Level 3: scores corresponding to 57-69 on the TOEFL iBT

• Tagged and untagged text files for lexico-grammatical and discourse analysis

• Sound files for phonological analysis

• Assessments for each task (rated for collaboration, task completion, and style by two trained raters).

The upcoming book (expected publication date fall 2020) includes chapters from different researcher in the fields of SLA, L2 pronunciation, corpus linguistics, and assessment

Contributors:

Mohammed Alquraishi: Northern Arizona University

Tony Becker: Colorado State University

Eniko Csomay: San Diego State University

Romy Ghanem: Memphis State University

Daniel Keller: Northern Arizona University

Mark McAndrews, SungEun Choi, Okim Kang: Northern Arizona University

Kim McDonough& Pakize Uludag: Concordia University

Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker: Colorado State University

Shelley Staples: University of Arizona