ArCC: EFL Learners' Corpus

A research project led by Dr. Omaima Abboud together with Dr. Noam Ordan. The corpus data is curated by Uliana Sentsova (the owner of the current repository).

For any questions about the data, please do not hesitate to contact me directly via email: uliana.sentsova (at) gmail.com.

Corpus Description

ArCC is a corpus of English essays written by native speakers of the Arabic language. Within the project, we collected 957 essays written by more than 300 students of The Arab Academic College of Education.

The directory of the project contains the following files and folders:

metadata.tsv
README
essays/
prompts.xml

The essays folder contains 957 files in text format, each file corresponds to an essay and each filename corresponds to the ID of that essay. The folder has 1.1 MB of data.

The metadata.tsv file contains detailed information about essays and their authors. The file consists of 957 rows and 5 columns, namely: Essay ID, Student ID, Level, Prompt, Date.

The ID column contains unique identification numbers of essays. ID is equal to the name of the file in the essays folder. Data type is integer.

The Level column contains codes of nine education levels. Data type is categorical (ordinal). See the following list for the meaning of each code:

• HS-9 high school students, 9th grade
• HS-10: high school students, 10th grade
• HS-11: high school students, 11th grade
• HS-12: high school students, 12th grade
• BA-0: students to be admitted for a BA programme at the Arab Academic College of Education
• BA-1: BA programme students, first year
• BA-2: BA programme students, second year
• BA-3: BA programme students, third year
• MA-1: MA programme students, first year

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Corpus Statistics

• Number of essays: 957
• Number of prompts: 39
• Number of tokens: 203654
• Number of types: 6619
• Number of lemmas: 4894
• Average number of tokens per text: 213
• Approximate number of sentences: 10246

Students Information

• Total number of students: 304
  • To-be-admitted students: 34
  • High school students: 141
  • BA students: 484
  • MA students: 298

Please note that the data comes from a time span of approximately three years. During this time, the participating students advanced with their education. As a result, the essays written by a particular student may have different level tags, from BA-1 to MA-1.