The Russian Retraining Subcorpus

R 131 F, R 132 F, R 133 F, R 134 F, R 135 F, R 136 F

R 137 F, R 138 F, R 139 F, R 140 F, R 141 F, R 142 F

R 143 F, R 144 F, R 145 F, R 146 F, R 147 M

The Writing Subcorpus

W 001 F, W 002 F, W 003 F, W 004 F, W 005 F, W 006 F

W 007 F, W 008 F, W 009 F, W 010 F, W 011 F, W 012 F

W 013 F, W 014 F, W 015 F, W 016 F, W 017 F, W 018 F

W 019 F, W 020 F, W 021 Fm W 022 Fm W 023 F, W 024 F

W 025 F, W 026 F, W 027 F, W 028 F, W 029 F, W 030 F

W 031 F, W 032 F, W 033 F, W 034 F, W 035 F, W 036 F

W 037 F, W 038 F, W 039 F, W 040 F, W 041 F, W 042 F

W 043 F, W 044 F, W 045 F, W 046 F, W 047 F, W 048 F

W 049 F, W 050 F, W 051 F, W 052 F, W 053 F, W 054 F

W 055 F, W 056 F, W 057 F, W 058 F, W 059 F, W 060 F

W 061 F, W 062 F, W 063 F, W 064 F, W 065 F, W 066 F

W 067 F, W 068 F, W 069 F, W 070 F, W 071 F, W 072 F

W 073 F, W 074 F, W 075 F, W 076 F, W 077 F, W 078 F

W 079 F, W 080 F, W 081 F, W 082 F, W 083 F, W 084 F

W 085 F, W 086 F, W 087 F, W 088 F, W 089 F, W 090 F

W 091 F, W 092 F, W 093 F, W 094 F, W 095 F, W 096 F

W 097 F, W 098 F, W 099 F, W 100 F, W 101 F, W 102 F

W 103 F, W 104 F, W 105 F, W 106 F, W 107 M, W 108 M

W 109 M, W 110 M, W 111 M, W 112 M, W 113 M, W 114 M

W 115 M, W 116 M, W 117 M, W 118 M, W 119 M, W 120 M

W 121 M, W 122 M, W 123 M, W 124 M, W 125 M, W 126 M

W 127 M, W 128 M, W 129 M, W 130 M

JPU Corpus Gem

Every now and then, I recommend a script from the corpus.

This time, it's L 216 F, an essay about travelling with lobsters.

JPU Corpus News

January 2008: My paper on the internet version of the JPU Corpus and its application with the Compleat Lexical Tutor was published in When Grammar Minds Language and Literature by the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen. (A PDF version of the paper is availabe.) Editors: József Andor, Béla Hollósy, Tibor Laczkó and Péter Pelyvás. The introduction: "At the end of the nineties, the first phase of a corpus-linguistic project involving over three hundred English majors at the university then known as Janus Pannonius came to an end: I had collected one of the largest European learner corpora, the JPU Corpus. It contained almost half a million words, which made it possible to describe and analyze the personal and academic writing of these students and to profile individual and group differences. Among other areas, it provided the raw data for analyzing correct and incorrect uses of the definite article in the essays of colleagues enrolled in the Russian retraining program and the opening and closing sentences in the subcorpus comprising one hundred research papers."

December 2007: The Hungarian applied-linguistics journal, Modern Nyelvoktatás, published my article about using the JPU corpus for various language study tasks. One of these tasks links the corpus with the color-coded frequency bands of the BNC, as part of the Frequency tools of the Compleat Lexical Tutor. Examples are provided in the article, using this excerpt from the JPU script L 220 F: "Graham Greene is the kind of writer whose novels and short stories are influenced by his own experiences in life. He does not write directly about his life but his attitude to the phenomena of the world and the things that happen to him can be felt in the ways he makes his stories. The role of childhood experiences, the unpleasant side of life and escapism are important aspects in Greene's life. This essay will examine how and why he deals with them in his works too."

June 2007: Tom Cobb added the JPU Corpus to his Compleat Lexical Tutor suite of tools and sources. You can get concordance citations online.

Searching Scripts

You can use the Search blog field at the top of every window to locate specific words, phrases, or sentences in the scripts.

Also, you can click one of these labels to read a script or more with that tag.

Text types:

essay * research paper * story

Themes:

academic essays * academic journals * accuracy * adverts * Americans * amusing writing * aphasia * attitudes * au-pairs

banned * blues * Britain * buffet

CALL * challenge * CHAT-SL * chatting * childhood * chipcards * classroom behavior * clutter * coffee cups * coherence * computer phobia * conclusions * concreteness * corpus analysis * course analysis * criminals * culture * culture of the English department

Dallas * day student was born * death * design * deviation * diaries in EFL * dictionary use * dogs' life * Dracula

Eco * education * effective presentations * English department * environment protection * esthetics * ethnic minorities * Evillage

Father O'Ryan * feedback * focus * free writing * future

Gandhi * getting up early * gifted children * Greene * group roles

handbook analysis * headlines * holiday * Hungarian journalism * HUSSE

ideal parent * idioms * interaction * introductions * introductions and conclusions * ITN World News

language learning * libraries * literary values * lobster * love

marking * meaning of life * media * medicine * mini essays * modernism

news values * newspapers * Newsweek * normalcy

observation * office design * Oklahoma bombing

paragraphs * paranormal phenomena * parenthood * Passage to India * photography * plagiarism * portfolio analysis * proficiency exam

rain forest * restaurants * retraining program * revision

75 Readings * slang * Soviet Union * Spender * stories with children * student communities * syllabus analysis

taped essay evaluation * taxi drivers * teacher interview * teahouse design * testing * thesis evaluation * Thurber * Time * travel* TV * 2015

university dormitories * USA

violence * virtual reality * vocabulary

war and peace * war in Croatia * Wildlife magazine * word processor * working women * writing * writing course * writing journals * writing skills

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