Building an Oral and Written Learner Corpus of a School Programme: Methodological Issues

Bell, Philippa; Collins, Laura; Marsden, Emma

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“…When working with children under seventeen years of age in Quebec, consent needs to be provided by their parents/guardians, creating valid data sets. Our piloting, which is detailed in Bell, Collins, and Marsden (2020), was conducted in five classrooms with 145 students. Data were collected from primary school students aged ten and eleven in grades five and six (the final two years of primary) and secondary school students aged fourteen and fifteen in the final three years of secondary.…”

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“…Four other measures were used to provide further information on the participants (metadata). The process we undertook before finalizing our data collection materials, including task selection, has been fully documented in a previous publication (Bell, Collins, & Marsden 2020) whose goals included methodological transparency to reduce research biases and to improve overall data collection (Gawne & Styles, chapter 2, this volume; Marsden 2019). Here, we present an overview of the different measures.…”

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Managing Oral and Written Data from an ESL Corpus from Canadian Secondary School Students in a Compulsory, School-Based ESL Program

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Collins²,

Marsden³

2022

The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management

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The following account is divided into five sections documenting the necessary first steps prior to data collection (section 2), data collection (section 3), data processing and metadata tagging to create the corpora (section 4), data storage (section 5), and data sharing (section 6). Organizing data collectionThe organization of data collection is a key step as it is at this juncture that decisions are taken that impact all subsequent steps. For example, decisions on types and the number of tests to include affect data collection and processing in terms of their duration, personnel requirements, and cost. In addition to methodological decisions, certain practical considerations also need to be considered, which also affect subsequent steps. It is for this reason that what follows details our organizational process comprehensively. We begin by briefly summarizing our piloting, which we then refer back to frequently, given that it affected all steps in our organizational process. The remaining topics in this section describe further aspects of our procedure-obtaining ethics approval, accessing participants, securing informed consent, identifying equipment needs, and training research assistants. It ends with a description of the eight measures we prepared for data collection. PilotingWith the exception of obtaining ethics approval, all decisions were finalized following extensive piloting, which is an essential part of data planning in the data life cycle (Mattern, chapter 5, this volume). It takes time and grant money, but its importance cannot be overstated for

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Section: Informed Consentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Final Data Collection Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%