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Copéas corpus: online language learning within an audiographic environment

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Download the TEI file: https://hdl.handle.net/11403/comere/cmr-copeas/cmr-copeas-tei-v1.xml

How to cite this resource

Chanier, T., Reffay, C., Betbeder, M-L., Ciekanski, M. & Lamy, M-N. (2015). Copéas corpus: online language learning within an audiographic environment. CoMeRe corpora repository. Ortolang.fr : Nancy. [cmr-copeas-tei-v1 ; https://hdl.handle.net/11403/comere/cmr-copeas/cmr-copeas-tei-v1.xml ]

Overview of the corpus

The first version of this corpus, under the LETEC standard - corpus for learning -, (Chanier, T., Reffay, C., Betbeder, M-L., Ciekanski, M. & Lamy, M-N. (2009)) may be downloaded from Mulce website with the code oai:mulce.org:mce.copeas.lectec.all. From the original corpus have been extracted all the interactions between the course participants. The initial corpus has been converted to the TEI standard in the project CoMeRe (Communication médiée par les réseaux) Interaction space of the learner group , which included less advanced learners.Interaction space of the learner group , which included more advanced learners

Keywords : Computer Mediated Communication ; CMC ; audio-synchronous environment ; collaborative learning ; multimodality ; online language learning ; LETEC ;

References

Composition

The whole corpus http://hdl.handle.net/11403/cmr-copeas/cmr-copeas-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: https://hdl.handle.net/11403/comere/cmr-copeas/cmr-copeas-tei-v1.zip

Coverage: nbparticipants=16 + 2 groups ; This corpus contains a total of 15074 acts classified as follows: 7718 audio acts, 1566 chat acts, 5790 production acts. It includes 127228 tokens

Rationale for this corpus

The Copéas (Communication pédagogique en environnement orienté audio synchrone) course took place in a Masters' degree in open and distance learning at the Université de Franche-Comté in 2005. The course (Master FOAD) is intended for those who want to pursue a career in education and training, either in the private or the public sector. One of the distinguishing features of this course of study is that it combines the development of both technical and pedagogical knowledge and competences. Course regulations prescribe the study of a foreign language (L2), and the course must include at least 20 hours of L2 use. Our project offered a way of meeting this requirement. Broadly speaking, it aimed to enable learners to develop a critical understanding of web-based learning while simultaneously helping them talk and write about the web in English. The Copéas course was intensive and lasted 10 weeks. Students, during 8 sessions, engaged in 60 to 80 minutes of tutored synchronous online discussion (in Lyceum) per week. The Copéas course used a combination of synchronous and asynchronous learning environments. Learners joined the course from home and used their own computer and connection. In each session,learners were working alternatively in whole group in the same Lyceum room and in subgroup in distinct rooms.

The learners were a group of 14 students, These learners carried out self-evaluation of their English language skills and consequently made two groups: false beginners (group T) and intermediate to advanced learners (group R). The two teachers of the course were English native speakers from Open University’s Institute of Educational Technology and its Department of Languages. Both teachers had experience of teaching languages, including English as a foreign language. However, while one of them was extremely familiar with teaching and moderating online, the other one was a newcomer to e-teaching. After an initial ice-breaking session, the syllabus focused on criticising a number of educational websites through the prism of such standard criteria as context, authorship, and authority; design principles and features; technical structure; level of interactivity and quality indicators. Learners then moved from reviewing websites to formulating their own guidelines for educational website design and thence to an evaluation of the two environments they had themselves been using. Whereas tutor T stuck to the scenario, tutor R took some liberties with it.

Interactions included into the original LETEC corpus (oai:mulce.org:mce-copeas-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 2 TEI (one per group). In each one, the front of the first text cotains the timeline of the 8 sessions. The groupincludes 8 text, one per session. Every session contains a set of sequences. Since sequences may happen in different conference room within Lyceum, they have been organized into time-spaces. A time-space correspond to on an line location where interactions happend continuously. A div corresponds to a time-space and generally includes several sequences. Transcriptions of the interactions have been made out of videos. There are referenced within the head of the division. All videos are listed in sourceDesc. For explanations on transcription see tagUsage and taxonomy

Description of the Interaction Space

CMC Environment

Structure of interactions

Data Collection

Data collected : From 2005-01-17 to 2005-03-08
rs: Milton Keynes,United Kingdom
rs: Besançon, France
rs: 7026232
rs: 7008356

Language of the data: French English

Types of interaction

Extracts of Participants

Language coded following ISO 639-2
Group #T
type: social, name: tutor, active: TutT, instant: false,
type: social, name: learner, active: #AT1 #AT2 #AT3 #AT4 #AT5 #AT6 #AT7, instant: false,
Group #R
type: social, name: tutor, active: #TutR, instant: false,
type: social, name: learner, active: #AR1 #AR2 #AR3 #AR4 #AR5 #AR6 #AR7, instant: false,

Person ID= TutR
sex: male
age: value: 50 ,
residence: United Kingdom
affiliation: The Open University
langKnowledge: First language Language used everyday
persName: Robin

Person ID= TutT
sex: male
age: value: 50 ,
residence: United Kingdom
affiliation: The Open University
langKnowledge: First language Language used everyday Language used everyday
persName: Tim

Person ID= AT1
sex: male
age: value: 49 ,
residence: France
affiliation: Université de Franche_Comté
langKnowledge: First language First language Auto-eval CECR level for Ltarget Still practice the language ? : y or n How many years of practice During how many years did you stop practising the language? Language used everyday
persName: Alain

Person ID= AT2
sex: female
age: value: 25 ,
residence: France
affiliation: Université de Franche_Comté
langKnowledge: First language Auto-eval CECR level for Ltarget Still practice the language ? : y or n How many years of practice During how many years did you stop practising the language? Language used everyday Other language learnt
persName: Amandine

Extracts of Interactions

TEI:copeas-group-T

Session 5 groupe T

TEI:copeas-group-R

Session 8 groupe R


Credits, Publication Statement and Rights

Publisher(s)

Date: 2015-03-01

Identifier(s)

uri: cmr-copeas-tei-v1
url: https://hdl.handle.net/11403/comere/cmr-copeas/cmr-copeas-tei-v1

Licence

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

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