The Learner Corpus Research Group VIP Team brings together undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in developing their knowledge of corpus linguistics, a computational research methodology widely used in linguistics. 

The project involves the collection and analysis of learner corpora in languages other than English. A learner ‘corpus’ is a large dataset of spoken and written texts by language learners stored and accessed in electronic format. The research activity of the VIP team will directly contribute to and expand the Multilingual Academic Corpus of Assignments - Writing and Speech (MACAWS).

 The types of research questions that the Learner Corpus Research Group will answer relate to language learners' use and development of language patterns (e.g., frequent words, phrases, grammatical structures, and other language features) in specific contexts. The research team will also work on the development and dissemination of corpus-informed language learning activities (see here for examples).