The Uppsala Student English Corpus (USE)

Title

The Uppsala Student English Corpus (USE) [Electronic resource]
Editor Axelsson, Margareta Westergren (ed.); Berglund, Ylva (ed.)
Availability This resource is freely available, you should be able to download it now.
Languages

English
Editorial Practice

Encoding format: Plain text

Encoding format: Microsoft Excel 2000
OTA keywords Linguistic corpora
Corpus
LC keywords

English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
English language--Acquisition
Extent
  • designation: Text data
  • size: (1499 files : ca. 6.66 megabytes)
Creation Date 1999-2001
Source Description

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Notes

Mode of access: Online. OTA website

Title proper taken from AHDS Catalogue Form

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.