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AuthorAhmed, Abdelhamid M.
AuthorZhang, Xiao
AuthorRezk, Lameya M.
AuthorZaghouani, Wajdi
Available date2024-02-26T09:18:29Z
Publication Date2024
Publication NameCorpus-based Studies across Humanities
Identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1515/csh-2023-0012
CitationAhmed, Abdelhamid M., Zhang, Xiao, Rezk, Lameya M. and Zaghouani, Wajdi. "Building an Annotated L1 Arabic/L2 English Bilingual Writer Corpus: The Qatari Corpus of Argumentative Writing (QCAW)" Corpus-based Studies across Humanities, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/csh-2023-0012
ISSN2940-1445
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/52215
AbstractThe 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.
SponsorThis paper is the outcome of a funded research grant by the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), Doha, Qatar. (NPRP Grant No. NPRP11S-1112-170006). Qatar National Library (QNL), Doha, Qatar, provided open-access funding for this article
Languageen
PublisherDe Gruyter
SubjectArgumentative Writing
Corpus Building
L1 Arabic
L2 English
Qatari Students
Qatari Corpus
TitleBuilding an Annotated L1 Arabic/L2 English Bilingual Writer Corpus: The Qatari Corpus of Argumentative Writing (QCAW)
TypeArticle
dc.accessType Open Access


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