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Spanish Learner Corpus Research: Current trends and future perspectives
Edited by Margarita Alonso-Ramos
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 78] 2016
► pp. 55–87

Chapter 3
Learner Spanish on computer

The CAES ‘Corpus de Aprendices de Español’ project

| Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
| Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
This chapter aims to provide a general description of the ‘Corpus de Aprendices de Español’ (CAES). It starts by discussing the contributions of Corpus Linguistics to the study of language and it next explains the emergence of learner corpora. The next section is concerned with the origin and development of the CAES corpus from the beginning to its current state and explains in detail the general design, compilation method, text encoding and annotation plus the search tool accompanying the corpus. The last part presents the results of a study on false friends based on data extracted from the corpus. Several conclusions and reflections follow together with some suggestions for further research.
Keywords: learner corpus, corpus linguistics, Spanish as a second language, false friends
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.CL, general learner corpora and main Spanish learner corpora
    • 2.1Brief overview of the importance of CL, the emergence of learner corpora and their applications
    • 2.2General review of the existing learner corpora in Spanish
  • 3.The CAES (Corpus de Aprendices de Español) Project
    • 3.1Origin and development of the project up to its current state
    • 3.2General design and compilation
    • 3.3Tasks devised for each of the levels considered and description of the sample collection method
    • 3.4Text encoding and annotation
    • 3.5The search tool
  • 4.Discussion of results obtained from the analysis of data gathered from CAES
    • 4.1False friends
  • 5.Final reflections and questions for further consideration
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
Published online: 16 December 2016
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