Greek Learner Corpus II (GLCII): Design and development of an online corpus for L2 Greek

This paper presents an error-annotated learner corpus, the Greek Learner Corpus II (GLCII). GLCII responds to the need for representational data of less spoken and taught languages that will support research on Greek as a second (L2) or foreign language (FL). To this aim, the GLCII includes both written and spoken learners’ productions from a range of genres accompanied with metadata relevant to L2/FL teaching and acquisition. GLCII has drawn on practices and current trends in corpus construction when adopting specific design criteria to ensure its originality, suitability, and availability as a language resource (Brezina, 2018; Tracy-Ventura et al., 2021). Currently, the GLCII is the largest online, freely available, Learner Corpus (LC) of L2 Greek, compiled within the framework of the research project Latent Aspects in L2 Acquisition (LAL2A)