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University of Oxford, 2003,
The Uppsala Student English Corpus (USE), CLARIN DSpace,
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/2457.
| dc.contributor | Kyto, Merja Department of English Sweden |
| dc.contributor.editor | Axelsson, Margareta Westergren |
| dc.contributor.editor | Berglund, Ylva |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-19T15:53:04Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-19T15:53:04Z |
| dc.date.created | 1999-2001 |
| dc.date.issued | 2003-08 |
| dc.description.abstract | The corpus consists of 1,489 essays written by 440 Swedish university students of English at three different levels, the majority in their first term of full-time studies. The total number of words is 1,221,265, which means an average essay length of 820 words. The most typical essay, from the first term, is somewhat shorter, averaging 777 words. Axelsson, Margareta Westergren. 2000. 'USE-The Uppsala Student English Corpus: An instrument for needs analysis'. ICAME Journal 24, 155-7. Available online at http://icame.uib.no/ij24/use.pdf Axelsson, Margareta Westergren. 1999. 'Project USE (Uppsala Student English)'. ASLA Information 25:2, 25-6. Student data available on MS Excel file as well as manual on corpus. |
| dc.description.sponsorship | University of Uppsala |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1499 files : ca. 6.66 MB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.identifier | ota:2457 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/2457 |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.subject.lcsh | English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers |
| dc.subject.lcsh | English language--Acquisition |
| dc.subject.other | Linguistic corpora |
| dc.title | The Uppsala Student English Corpus (USE) |
| dc.type | Corpus |
| local.branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| local.branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| local.files.count | 4 |
| local.files.size | 3619087 |
| local.has.files | yes |
| local.language.name | English |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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