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RESEARCH
: METHODS : MAELC : INTRO |
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Multimedia
Adult English Learner Corpus |
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| The Multimedia Adult English Learner Corpus (MAELC)
is a collection of audio/video recordings, classroom codes,
transcripts, teacher reflections and student work samples
from the ongoing low-level ESL classes at the Adult ESOL
Lab School. All of the materials are in a digital format,
allowing for easy search and retrieval. The corpus is
intended to be used for research in second language acquisition
and pedagogy as well as for professional development purposes. |
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| Each term we record four classes each for 6 hours per
week, 10 weeks per term (8 weeks in summer term). Each
class is recorded with six cameras and seven microphones.
In each classroom, four of the cameras show fixed perspectives
of the whole class and two cameras are remotely controlled
to focus on and follow the language and activities of
selected wearing radio microphones on a given day (the
microphones rotate among students in a class day by day).
Classroom activity coding and transcription work has continued
and kept up with the recording, with half of the classes
coded and portions of the coded classes transcribed. All
recordings, including those from classes that are not
coded and transcribed, are available online for viewing
and analysis (and further coding and transcription if
desired). Teacher reflections are audio-recorded after
each class, and materials used in the classroom are scanned
into digital images. Data are also entered from teacher
logs providing an outline of the days' activities and
other significant details about the classes. |
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