Design and construction of the Tracking Written Learner Language (TRAWL) Corpus: A longitudinal and multilingual young learner corpus

This article describes the design and construction of Tracking Written Learner Language (TRAWL) Corpus. The corpus combines several features that are all rare for learner corpora: it is longitudinal, following individual pupils over years; has data from young learners school years 5 to 13 (ages 10–18); multilingual, containing learners’ texts in L3s (French, German Spanish), L2 English L1 Norwegian; includes teacher comments on a number texts. In addition, some exist both first second revised version, tied rich set meta-data. Not only does such offer new possibilities research language acquisition general; can also be used provide valuable insights teachers, training policymaking within national context Norway. this article, we describe TRAWL Corpus outline its uses benefits community. We compilation process hope may inspire enable others build similar corpora their own contexts.