A corpus of English learners with Arabic and Hebrew backgrounds: A corpus of English learners...: O. Abboud et al.

Learner corpora—datasets that reflect the language of non-native speakers—are instrumental for research of language learning and development, as well as for practical applications, mainly for teaching and education. Such corpora now exist for a plethora of native–foreign language pairs; but until re...

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Published in:Language Resources & Evaluation Vol. 59; no. 1; pp. 591 - 600
Main Authors: Abboud, Omaima, Laufer, Batia, Ordan, Noam, Sentsova, Uliana, Wintner, Shuly
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Published: Springer Nature Mar2025
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          https://ror.org/04am5ns61 Department of English, Arab Academic College for Education, Haifa, Israel
          https://ror.org/02f009v59 Department of English Language and Literature, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
          The Israeli Association of Human Language Technologies, Haifa, Israel
          https://ror.org/02f009v59 Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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