LINDSEI
| title | LINDSEI |
| subtitle | Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage |
| creator(s) | Sylviane Granger, Gaëtanelle Gilquin, Sylvie De Cock |
| research center(s) | Centre for English Corpus Linguistics |
| short description | The Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI) is a corpus of informal interviews with higher intermediate to advanced EFL learners of English from a series of mother tongue backgrounds. |
| description | The Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI) is a corpus of informal interviews with higher intermediate to advanced EFL learners of English from 11 mother tongue backgrounds (Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish and Swedish). It contains over one million words, of which almost 800,000 were produced by learners. This represents 554 interviews, which correspond to more than 130 hours of recording (not included on the CD-ROM). Each interview was made up of three tasks: a warming-up activity, in which learners were given a few minutes to talk about one of three set topics, a free informal discussion which was conceived as the main part of the interview, and a picture description. A total of 23 variables have been encoded for each interview, giving information about the learner (L1, age, gender, number of years of English at school, time spent in an English-speaking country, etc), about the interviewer (mother tongue, status in relation to the learner, etc) and about the interview itself (duration, institution where it was recorded, etc). |
| type(s) | oral, learners |
| language(s) | English |
| format(s) | Text file (.txt) |
| corpus size | Over 1 million words; 554 interviews |
| date | 1995 |
| keywords | EFL learners, informal interviews |
| corpus publisher(s) | Presses universitaires de Louvain |
| contributor(s) | See list of partners |
| distribution format(s) | CD-ROM + handbook |
| description languages | English |
| contact | Sylviane Granger <sylviane.granger@uclouvain.be>; Gaëtanelle Gilquin <gaetanelle.gilquin@uclouvain.be> |
| corpus reference | Gilquin, G., De Cock, S. & Granger, S. (eds) (2010). The Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage. Handbook and CD-ROM. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses universitaires de Louvain. |