Basic structure of the Corpus of Multilingual Opinion Essays by College Students

Read me before opening the English files:

The first line (before the first <P>) is the essay title.
<P> implies "paragraph begins", and <P> implies "paragraph ends".
For Mac, you can easily retrieve your target linguistic form using CasualConc or any other text extractors.
The texts are typed and spelled exactly as participants wrote, including spelling mistakes.
Any information that may threaten the anonymity of the writer is replaced with a category of the information, e.g., <SCHOOL NAME> for a name of university.

Genre

Multilingual opinion essays:

L1 English, Japanese, Taiwanese, Korean
L2 English by Japanese speakers, Japanese by English, Taiwanese, and Korean speakers

Second language learners, university level.

Simple text files. The participants’ language background information is available.

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