CORAF

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CORAF (Corpus ORal de Aprendientes de Francés) is a learner corpus composed of 30 interviews with Spanish learners of French as a Foreign Language (FLE). These learners contribute to our project by taking part in some informal conversations/interviews performed in their teaching establishments (all the recordings were taken in the University of Castilla-La Mancha and three other Language Schools in the Castilla-La Mancha region).

CORAF is also a monolingual French as Foreign Language learner corpus composed by 30 samples of spontaneous speech from 34 participants (30 learners and 4 interviewers). There is a total of 61.092 words (33.915 produced by learners). We collected also different samples from all levels of the CEFR (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2), and all the recordings are synchronized with their orthographic transcription.

In addition, files include transcription and metadata of learners' sociolinguistic information (such as sex, age, place of birth or teaching level), and some other data about learners' knowledge of French (i.e. level, learning context, etc.).

The transcription used follows the LLI-UAM guidelines and also covers an error analysis of oral production by means of different tags (analyzed and categorized by the researcher). Finally, we take into account different speech phenomena (tagged as @oral and {%oral}), in order to find out another important and significant features of learner language.

The corpus structure and other specific features are shown in the following tables:

LEVEL (CEFR)	TOTAL LENGTH	MEAN LENGTH	Nº INTERVIEWS & SEX (Man or Woman)	WORDS (TOTAL)	WORDS (LEARNER)
A1	1:00:24	12' 05"	5 (2M/3W)	6989	2506
A2	1:05:22	13' 04"	5 (3M/2W)	8503	4110
B1	1:14:19	14' 52"	5 (1M/4W)	9699	4908
B2	1:19:46	15' 57"	5 (2M/3W)	11279	6858
C1	1:20:28	16' 06"	5 (2M/3W)	12365	7867
C2	1:22:04	16' 25"	5 (2M/3W)	12257	7666
TOTAL	7:22:23	14' 45"	30 (12M/18W)	61092	33915

FILE	LEVEL (CEFR)	LENGTH	TOTAL WORDS	WORDS (LEARNER)	WORDS (INTERVIEWER)	TURNS	Nº SPEECH PHENOMENA
A1M01	A1	0:10:44	1371	445	926	189	0
A1M02	A1	0:12:03	1639	288	1351	212	1
A1W01	A1	0:13:27	1196	429	767	162	0
A1W02	A1	0:12:54	1528	741	787	214	0
A1W03	A1	0:11:16	1255	603	652	162	3
	A1	1:00:24	8503	4110	4393	939	4
A2M01	A2	00:12:49	1648	605	1043	266	2
A2M02	A2	00:13:43	2189	1180	1009	257	37
A2M03	A2	00:10:18	1460	485	975	215	1
A2W01	A2	00:13:54	1444	846	598	212	1
A2W02	A2	00:14:38	1762	994	768	361	2
	A2	1:05:22	8503	4110	4393	1311	43
B1M01	B1	00:12:57	1688	749	939	175	6
B1W01	B1	00:15:23	2062	1011	1051	319	2
B1W02	B1	00:17:08	2173	1111	1062	363	12
B1W03	B1	00:14:54	2262	1026	1236	313	27
B1W04	B1	00:13:57	1514	1011	503	135	1
	B1	1:14:19	9699	4908	4791	1305	48
B2M01	B2	00:18:59	2695	1676	1019	263	46
B2M02	B2	00:15:07	1794	1081	713	215	1
B2W01	B2	00:12:57	1975	904	1071	160	14
B2W02	B2	00:16:56	2392	1780	612	126	24
B2W03	B2	00:15:47	2423	1417	1006	262	14
	B2	1:19:46	11279	6858	4421	1026	99
C1M01	C1	00:16:59	2416	1464	952	298	11
C1M02	C1	00:13:24	1845	1095	750	228	47
C1W01	C1	00:17:35	2841	1825	1016	325	23
C1W02	C1	00:14:11	2694	1875	819	179	76
C1W03	C1	00:18:19	2569	1608	961	309	16
	C1	1:20:28	12365	7867	4498	1339	173
C2M01	C2	00:14:16	1750	1162	588	189	5
C2M02	C2	00:15:54	2348	1518	830	330	23
C2W01	C2	00:20:00	2762	1756	1006	390	26
C2W02	C2	00:14:40	2564	1487	1077	287	24
C2W03	C2	00:17:14	2833	1743	1090	207	50
	C2	1:22:04	12257	7666	4591	1403	128
TOTAL		7:22:23	61092	33915	27177	7323	495

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• VALVERDE MATEOS, A. (2012) Análisis de errores de aprendientes de francés como lengua extranjera basado en corpus orales.. PhD. Thesis. Autonomous University of Madrid.
• VALVERDE MATEOS, A. (2012) “Uso de corpus orales de aprendientes para la enseñanza del francés como lengua extranjera”. In: Candel Mora, M.A., and Carrió Pastor, M.L (eds): Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Corpus Linguistics. April 2011, Valencia, 675-682. ISBN: 9788469462256.