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Archi21 corpus: collaborative language and architectural learning in Second Life

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This page: http://hdl.handle.net/11403/comere/cmr-archi21/cmr-archi21-tei-v1
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Download the TEI file: http://hdl.handle.net/11403/comere/cmr-archi21/cmr-archi21-tei-v1.xml

How to cite this resource

Chanier, T. & Wigham, C.R. (2015). Archi21 corpus: collaborative language and architectural learning in Second Life. CoMeRe corpora repository. Ortolang.fr : Nancy. [cmr-archi21-tei-v1 ; http://hdl.handle.net/11403/comere/cmr-archi21/cmr-archi21-tei-v1 ]

Overview of the corpus

The first version of this corpus, under the LETEC standard - corpus for learning -, (Chanier, T. & Wigham, C.R. , 2011) may be downloaded from Mulce website with the code oai:mulce.org:mce-archi21-letec-all. From the original corpus have been extracted part of the interactions (all reflexive sessions) which occurred in Second Life between the course participants. The initial corpus has been converted to the TEI standard in the project CoMeRe (Communication médiée par les réseaux)

Keywords : Computer Mediated Communication; CMC; Synthetic environments; avatar; collaborative learning; multimodality; online language learning; LETEC;

References

Composition

The whole corpus http://hdl.handle.net/11403/cmr-archi21/cmr-archi21-tei-v1 includes the following elements (all included into the Zip file), plus all the videos listed in sourceDesc. Every video file has to be separatly downloaded

Download the corpus (without videos) corresponding to this topic: http://hdl.handle.net/11403/comere/cmr-archi21/cmr-archi21-tei-v1.zip

Coverage: nbparticipants=18 + 4 groups ; This corpus contains a total of 4811 acts classified as follows: 1690 audio acts, 669 chat acts, 2452 production (non verbal) acts. It includes 27 912 tokens

Rationale for this corpus

The Archi 21 projet (Architectural and Design Based Education and Practice Through Content and Language Integrated Learning Using Immersive Virtual Environments for 21st Century Skills)seeks to provide innovative methods and materials supporting second language learning through a content and language integrated approach (CLIL) merged integrated with architectural and design education and practice and the use of emerging ICT technologies. Building Fragile Spaces was the first pilot course for Archi21 project. It was a hybrid (face-to-face and distance) CLIL design studio held on 7-11 February 2011 and designed by architecture tutors from l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais and language tutors from Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France. The face-to-face part of the course is typical within the field of architectural education: professionals work in small groups with students, over a short period, developing design ideas. The innovative distance French and English L2 activities of the studio incorporated both architectural and linguistic objectives and were conducted in the synthetic world Second Life. The use of the Second Life environment stemmed from a conviction that 3D synthetic worlds are an exciting new design field for architectural experimentation. The course had the project-oriented goal of developing working models for spatial archetypes, landscapes and identity to be employed as both its technical infrastructure and spatial, graphic expression. The pedagogical scenario for the language activities (which can be dowloaded from the LETEC corpus oai:mulce.org:mce-archi21-letec-all) included introductory sessions to Second Life and to building collaboratively in the synthetic world, and a series of group reflective sessions inworld (Only the later sessions are included in this corpus cmr-archi21-tei-v1).

'Building Fragile Spaces' involved eight female and nine male students, aged between 21 years and one month and 25 years and 8 months. Students ranged from first year undergraduates to second year Masters' students. French was the mother tongue of nine of the seventeen students. The mother tongues of the remaining eight were: Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Korean and Arabic. The participants were divided into four workgroups. This division was thematic and linguistic: each workgroup received a different architectural brief and had a dominant second language. Two workgroups, studying the themes of '(e)spaces' (es / GE) and 'scenarios' (sc / GS) in Second Life had English as their target language (ESL) and two groups studying the themes of 'avatars' (av / GA) and 'land+scapes' (ls / GL) had French as their target language (FLE). One French and one English language tutor participated in the course alongside a French architecture tutor and an American architecture tutor. The students and the architecture tutors were co-present in the physical classroom. However, the English and French language tutors met with the students inworld, connecting to Second Life at a distance.

Interactions included into the original LETEC corpus (oai:mulce.org:mce-archi21-letec-all ) have been converted to the TEI standard in the project CoMeRe (Communication médiée par les réseaux) . This project aims at assembling different corpora that are representative of various types of network communication (Internet, phone, etc.), all structured and informed in the same manner, broadcasted in free-access for research aims. The CoMeRe project is supported by ORTOLANG and the national consortium Corpus-écrits.

The TEI structure used is an extension of TEI for CMC genres. This extension is developped by a European project which participants are : Michael Beißwenger (DE), Thierry Chanier (FR), Isabella Chiari (IT), Maria Ermakova (DE), Maarten van Gompel (NL), Iris Hendrickx (NL), Axel Herold (DE), Henk van den Heuvel (NL), Lothar Lemnitzer (DE), Angelika Storrer (DE).

Editorial procedures

The corpus has been segmented into 4 TEI, one per leaner group (see description in particDesc. Every TEI contains a group which is divided into other groups, one per reflective session. One session may correspond to several videos. Hence within the bottom level group, there are as many texts as transcribed videos. This later level of text contains an elemaent front with the timeline of the coresponding video, and a body with the transcription in TEI-CMC. All videos are listed in sourceDesc and can be downloaded separatly. For explanations on transcription see tagUsage and taxonomy

Description of the Interaction Space

CMC Environment

Structure of interactions

Data Collection

Data collected : From 2011-02-07 to 2011-02-11
rs: Clermont-Ferrand, France
rs: Paris, France
rs: 7008202
rs: 7008038

Language of the data: French English

Types of interaction

Extracts of Participants

Group #av
type: social, name: tutor, active: #tfrez1,
type: social, name: learner, active: #prevally #pjgamez #crispis #emmegi88,
Group #es
type: social, name: tutor, active: #tfrez2,
type: social, name: learner, active: #romeorez #tingrabu #quentinrez #hallorann,

Person ID= tmrez3
note: face to face tutor
sex: male
residence: usa
affiliation: École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais
persName: Brad

Person ID= tmrez4
note: face to face tutor
sex: male
residence: fra
affiliation: École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais
persName: Jamil

Person ID= nathanrez
sex: male
age: value: 22,
residence: fra
affiliation: École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais
persName: Nathan
langKnowledge: First language or language used every day
langKnowledge: Second language (first foreign)
langKnowledge: Third language (second foreign)

Person ID= antoinobri
sex: male
age: value: 25,
residence: fra
affiliation: École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais
persName: Antoine
langKnowledge: First language or language used every day
langKnowledge: Second language (first foreign)
langKnowledge: Third language (second foreign)

Extracts of Interactions

Group ES studying the themes of '(e)spaces' , English as their target language (ESL), Reflective sessions days 3 and 4 of the studio see publicationStmt, top level Videos fo group ES, day 3: , and Videos fo group ES, day 4: , , and members of the group, see particDesc

Group AV studying the themes of 'avatars' , French as their target language (FLE), Reflective sessions days 2 and 4 of the studio see publicationStmt, top level Videos fo group AV, day 2: , , and Videos fo group AV, day 4: , and members of the group, see particDesc

Credits, Publication Statement and Rights

Publisher(s)

Date: 2015-04-29

Identifier(s)

uri: cmr-archi21-tei-v1
url: http://hdl.handle.net/11403/comere/cmr-archi21/cmr-archi21-tei-v1

Licence

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

The persons who created this work have dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. We recommand that researchers reference / cite our work as mentionned in titleSmt

All participants names have been removed and data have been anonymized. All participants signed a consent form, which can be found in oai : mulce.org:mce-archi21-letec-all

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