ABOUT LCSL
The NCCU Learner Corpus of Slavic Languages (LCSL) includes an abundance of Chinese learners’ language data of Russian and Czech, both divided into written and spoken corpora. These corpora are equipped with word search engines, filtered according to the data type, student gender, years of learning etc. The collection and construction of LCSL is led by the Learner Corpus Research Team at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, College of Foreign Languages & Literature, National Chengchi University, whose goal is to understand the characteristics of different levels of L2 learners in both written and oral data types. The result of such study would serve as a future reference for similar pedagogical research and curriculum design.
Russian
Russian belongs to the East Slavic group of the Indo-European languages, together with Ukrainian and Belarusian. Standard modern Russian language (современный русский литературный язык), as the current language in use, was formed in the 19th century: the written system is based on Cyrillic script (Киррилица) and its current spelling rules were determined following the reform in 1918 and with revisions in 1956.
Czech
Czech belongs to the West Slavic group of the Indo-European languages together with Slovak, Polish, and Sorbian languages. The current Czech language can be classified into two categories: Standard Czech (spisovná čeština), mostly used in the literary written form, and Common Czech (obecná čeština), mainly based on the Czech spoken in central Bohemia. The data of this learner corpus is primarily based on Common Czech.