Scoledit

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

Claire Wolfarth | Grenoble Alpes University, Lidilem, Grenoble

Claude Ponton | Grenoble Alpes University, Lidilem, Grenoble

Catherine Brissaud | 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