Data Access
The CAWSE spoken and written subcorpora are currently available for download.To access the data, Register or Sign in. Only institutional email addresses will be approved at this stage. We will review this policy to consider opening the access to the wider public in the future.
For more information, see Overview of CAWSE Written and Spoken (PDF).
Overview of Data (Updated in August 2019)
| Context | Mode | Task | Source | No. of scripts | Average length | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment | Written | Listening and summary writing *sample | Hand-written exam script | 515 | 280 words | 144,000 words |
| Reading and writing (general) *sample | Hand-written exam script | 365 | 450 words | 164,000 words | ||
| Reading and writing (arts and social science) *sample | Hand-written exam script | 344 | 750 words | 258,000 words | ||
| Reading and writing (science and engineering) *sample | Hand-written exam script | 268 | 746 words | 200,000 words | ||
| Written assignment (arts and social science) *sample | Electronic essay | 367 | 1,500 words | 550,000 words | ||
| Written assignment (science and engineering) *sample | Electronic essay | 290 | 1,500 words | 435,000 words | ||
| Spoken | Interview *sample | Audio | 122 | 10 minutes | 122,000 words | |
| Presentation *sample | Video | 184 | 10 minutes | 184,000 words | ||
| Teaching & Learning | Multimodal | Chat-up session (academic group discussion) | Video | 7 sessions | 1 hour | 7 hours |
| Pre-sessional classroom (Pre-Masters) | Video | 87 clips | - | 17 hours | ||
| Group presentation (Electrical and Electronic Engineering Year2) | Video | 26 | 10 minutes | 4 hours and 20 minutes |
Notes for Users
1. All the data comes from the Year One Programme in CELE at UNNC except for presentations in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Year 2) and pre-sessional classroom data (Pre-Masters level), which are indicated clearly in the table above.2. The assessment data is available in plain text only. For multimodal data, note that only some trial data is available, and please contact Dr Simon Harrison (Contact email: simon.harrison@cityu.edu.hk) for further enquiries.
How to Cite CAWSE
Chen, Y. H., Harrison, S., Stevens, M. and Zhou, Q. (forthcoming). Developing A Multimodal Corpus of L2 English from an EMI University in China. Corpora.Chen, Y. H., Harrison, S., Oakey, D., Stevens, M. P., Yang, S., Ioratim-Uba, G., Zhou, Q.Q. & Bruncak, R. (2018). UNNC Corpus of Academic Written and Spoken Corpus (CAWSE) Version 1.0. Ningbo, China: University of Nottingham Ningbo China.
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