READ ME File For ‘Wallington 2021 - PhD dataset’

Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D1786

ReadMe Author: AMY WALLINGTON, University of Southampton ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2853-5499

This dataset supports the thesis entitled: Investigating the roles of feature reassembly and linguistic input in later-stage second language acquisition: a case study of aspectual development in university learners of French 
AWARDED BY: University of Southampton
DATE OF AWARD: 2021

DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA
This dataset contains four different sources of data. 

Firstly, the production data consists of French oral data collected in person by the researcher from two groups of university students acquiring French as a second language, as well as a group of students whose first language was French (the control group). The data is divided into two tasks (Cat Story and Conversation), and focuses on the number of contexts and tokens of French viewpoint aspect form-meaning mappings produced by participants; consequently, the summarised data is subdivided by aspectual condition (habitual/continuous/progressive/perfective). There is also a tab labelled TTR where a small-scale type-token ratio analysis is carried out. The final tab contains the data in long form, as can be used in statistical software. 

Secondly, the comprehension data consists of participants’ responses on an online acceptability judgement task (AJT), where they were required to give a rating of 1-5 to a series of French sentences, to show how appropriate they considered the sentence to be in a given context. The AJT was created by the researcher and administered online via iSurvey to be completed independently by participants. Again, the final tab contains the long form of the data.

The third source contains data from a 10,000-word sample of native French, sampled from the CFPP2000 corpus (freely available at http://cfpp2000.univ-paris3.fr/index.html ).  The first two tabs provide summaries of the files used and of the proportions of viewpoint aspect-expressing forms (and other verb types) in the corpus data, and the following tabs show the verb analysis per file.

Finally, the fourth source of data was collected in person by the researcher using the Language Engagement Questionnaire (LEQ), which is used to assess language exposure. The data consists of participants rating how often they engaged in a range of activities in a particular language (French/English/Spanish/Other). 

All files are viewable using Excel.

This dataset contains:

ProductionData_final.xlsx - Production Data
compdata_FINAL.xlsx - Comprehension Data
corpus_data_final.xlsx - Corpus Data
LEQ_Data_final.xlsx - LEQ Data

Date of data collection: 01/10/2018 - 30/11/2020

Information about geographic location of data collection: 

Licence:
CC BY

Related projects/Funders:
The data was collected for a PhD funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (award ref: 1802314)

Related publication:
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Date that the file was created: March 2021