Tunisian Lecture Corpus (TLC)

title Tunisian Lecture Corpus (TLC)
creator(s) Basma Bouziri
research center(s) Centre for English Corpus Linguistics
short description The Tunisian Lecture Corpus (TLC) is a non-native, specialized corpus of academic lectures collected in two institutions of higher education in Tunisia in the academic year 2014-2015. The corpus comprises around 106 thousand words and is made up of 12 video and 1 audio recordings. Thirteen lecturers of undergraduate courses in three disciplines: cultural studies, linguistics, and literature, participated in this research. Course descriptions of 9 out of 10 courses recorded are included in the corpus in addition to metadata about the participants such as gender, age, language background, and teaching experience.
description The Tunisian Lecture Corpus (TLC) is a non-native, specialized corpus of academic lectures collected in two institutions of higher education in Tunisia in the academic year 2014-2015. The corpus comprises around 106 thousand words and is made up of 12 video and 1 audio recordings. Thirteen lecturers of undergraduate courses in three disciplines: cultural studies, linguistics, and literature, participated in this research. Course descriptions of 9 out of 10 courses recorded are included in the corpus in addition to metadata about the participants such as gender, age, language background, and teaching experience.
type(s) oral
language(s) English
format(s) Text file (.txt)
corpus size 106,200 words, 20 hours and 50 minutes
date 2015
keywords Spoken English, Non-native lecturers, Academic lectures
description languages English
contact Basma Bouziri <basma.bouziri@uclouvain.be>