Corpus de aprendizes de português da Universidade de Macau e ensino de português L2

Jing Zhang; Mu You

doi:10.1590/1983-3652.2024.47754

Authors

Jing Zhang Universidade de Macau, Faculdade de Letras, Departamento de Português, Macau, China https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4801-6354
Mu You Universidade de Macau, Faculdade de Letras, Departamento de Português, Macau, China https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5029-3903

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/1983-3652.2024.47754

Keywords:

Learner corpus, Chinese learners of Portuguese L2, Quantitative and qualitative analysis, Pedagogical applications

Abstract

This article presents a corpus of Chinese learners of Portuguese L2 with PoS and lemma annotations, highlighting its potential for quantitative and qualitative analysis in identifying linguistic patterns among learners, thus contributing to the teaching of Portuguese L2. This corpus (University of Macau Portuguese Learners Corpus), named UMPLC, contains a total of 933 compositions produced by 122 Portuguese students fromUniversity of Macau over three consecutive years of study. PoS and lemma annotation was performed using Stanza, an automatic annotator developed by Qi et al. (2020). To ensure annotation consistency, the results were manually reviewed. In this research, the PoS and lemma information enables us to quantitatively and qualitatively investigate various phenomena in the corpus relating to lexical aspects and diachronic changes in this regard. Two studies were conducted based on a contrastive approach, comparing the Portuguese of learners in the corpus with native Portuguese. Non-native linguistic characteristics were discovered, allowing Portuguese L2 teachers to focus on areas requiring corrective work.

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