Building an Annotated L1 Arabic/L2 English Bilingual Writer Corpus: The Qatari Corpus of Argumentative Writing (QCAW)-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Building an Annotated L1 Arabic/L2 English Bilingual Writer Corpus: The Qatari Corpus of Argumentative Writing (QCAW)

Published:2024-01-12 Issue:0 Volume:0 Page:
ISSN:2940-1445
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Author:

Ahmed Abdelhamid M.¹^ORCID,Zhang Xiao²,Rezk Lameya M.³,Zaghouani Wajdi⁴

Affiliation:

1. Assistant Professor in English Language Education, Core Curriculum Program, Deanship of General Studies , Qatar University , Doha , Qatar

2. Postdoctoral Researcher, Core Curriculum Program, Deanship of General Studies , Qatar University , Doha , Qatar

3. Postdoctoral Researcher, College of Humanities & Social Sciences , Hamad Bin Khalifa University , Doha , Qatar

4. Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, College of Humanities & Social Sciences , Hamad Bin Khalifa University , Doha , Qatar

Abstract

Abstract The study presents the creation of the Qatari Corpus of Argumentative Writing (QCAW) as an annotated L1 Arabic and L2 English bilingual writer corpus. It comprises 200,000 tokens of argumentative writing by Qatari university students in L1 Arabic and L2 English. The corpus includes 195 essays written by 195 students, 159 females and 36 males. The students were native Arabic speakers proficient in English as a second language. The corpus is divided into Arabic and English sections, accompanied by part-of-speech annotated files in UTF-8 encoded text format. Metadata in CSV format contains information about the students (gender, major, first and second languages) and the essays (text serial numbers, word limits, genre, writing date, time spent, and location). The current study outlines the steps for collecting and analysing the corpus, including details on essay writers, topic selection, pre-analysis text modifications, proficiency level, gender, and major ratings. Statistical analyses were applied to examine the corpus. The QCAW offers a valuable bilingual data source authored by the same students in Arabic and English, with implications for further research.

Funder

Qatar National Library

Qatar National Research Fund

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/csh-2023-0012/pdf

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