Developing pedagogically appropriate language corpora through crowdsourcing and gamification

Abstract

Despite the unquestionable academic interest on corpus-based approaches to language education, the use of corpora by teachers in their everyday practice is still not very widespread. One way to promote usage of corpora in language teaching is by making pedagogically appropriate corpora, labelled with different types of problems (for instance, sensitive content, offensive language, structural problems), so that teachers can select authentic examples according to their needs. Because manually labelling corpora is extremely time-consuming, we propose to use crowdsourcing for this task. After a first exploratory phase, we are currently developing a multimode, multilanguage game in which players first identify problematic sentences and then classify them.

Authors 8

1. Rina Zviel-Girshin

   Ruppin Academic Center

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   Ruppin Academic Center, Emek Hefer, Israel

2. Tanara Zingano Kuhn

   Centro de Estudos de Linguística Geral e Aplicada · University of Coimbra

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   CELGA-ILTEC/University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

3. Ana R. Luís

   Centro de Estudos de Linguística Geral e Aplicada · University of Coimbra

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   CELGA-ILTEC/University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

4. Kristina Koppel

   Institute of the Estonian Language

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   Institute of the Estonian Language, Tallinn, Estonia

5. Branislava Šandrih

   University of Belgrade

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   University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

6. Špela Arhar Holdt

   University of Ljubljana

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   University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

7. Carole Tiberius Aachen Dutch Language Institute

   Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal

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   Dutch Language Institute, Leiden, Netherlands

8. Iztok Kosem

   University of Ljubljana · Jožef Stefan Institute

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   University of Ljubljana & Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia