Chapter published in:
Beyond Concordance Lines: Corpora in language education
Edited by Pascual Pérez-Paredes and Geraldine Mark
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 102] 2021
► pp. 207–230

Chapter 9
Scoledit

A tool to analyse learner writing and better understand the challenges of language education

| Grenoble Alpes University, Lidilem, Grenoble
| Grenoble Alpes University, Lidilem, Grenoble
| Grenoble Alpes University, Lidilem, Grenoble

The purpose of Scoledit is to build a computer-aided longitudinal corpus of texts written by pupils between 6 and 11 years as well as associated automatic processing tools. This project seeks to produce linguistic descriptions of pupils’ writings and to facilitate the teaching of spelling and writing. Currently, an increasing number of projects aim to create large primary school corpora of French (Elalouf, 2005; Garcia-Debanc & Bonnemaison, 2014; David & Doquet, 2016). However, these corpora are neither longitudinal nor associated with natural language processing (NLP) tools (Wolfarth, 2017). This chapter discusses some of the automated tools for linguistic analyses developed and the advantages of the Scoledit project in the context of language teaching

Keywords: first language learner corpora, natural language processing tools, linguistic description of writing skills, Scoledit
Article outline
  • Context
  • The Scoledit project
  • Corpus design
  • Specific tools for processing
  • Description of the longitudinal corpus
  • Grammatical categories
  • Breakdown of error categories
  • Breakdown of errors by grammatical category
  • Observation of verbal morphology
  • Breakdown of verb tenses
  • Error breakdown
  • Distinction of errors in the stem and the inflection
  • Teaching recommendations on verbal tenses
  • Hyposegmentation and hypersegmentation
  • Elision, a frequent factor in hyposegmentation
  • Hyposegmentation: The case of reflexive verbs
  • A particular hyposegmentation issue: The alternation of la/‘l’a’
  • Teaching recommendations on word segmentation
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 22 December 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.102.09wol
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