The PLEC Project
The PELCRA Learner English Corpus (PLEC) is a research project run by Piotr Pęzik at the University of Łódź and funded by a grant from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (N N104 205039). PLEC is an electronic database containing samples of written and spoken learner English. The corpus makes it possible to analyse many aspects of the phonetic, lexico-grammatical and phraseological competence of Polish learners of English using quantiative and qualitative methods.
The Corpus
The PLEC corpus is expected to reach a total of 3 million words by 2013. It contains samples of learner English, such as essays, letters, MA theses and many other types written compositions authored by Poles using English as a foreign language (2.8 million words). It also features a 200 000 word time-aligned spoken subcorpus of learner English.
Tools
The corpus search and analysis tools developed within the project make it possible to address important research questions about the acquisition of English by Polish learners.
Research
The PLEC project brings interesting insights into the lexico-grammatical and phraseological competence of learners of English.