Gavin BROOKS    Department   Kyoto University of Foreign Studies  Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies    Position   Associate Professor
Date	2022/07/08
Presentation Theme	The Importance of the L2 Corpora for Material Development
Conference	PanSIG 2022
Promoters	PanSIG Japanese Association of Language Teachers
Conference Type	Domestic
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Collaborative
Country	Japan
Venue	The University of Nagano Miwa Campus.
Holding period	2022/07/08～2022/07/10
Publisher and common publisher	Gavin Brooks,Jen Jordan
Details	This presentation describes the development and use of a large-scale longitudinal corpus consisting of texts collected from Japanese first-year university students (n=500). The presentation demonstrates how this corpus data is linked with demographic and linguistic information of each participant to help identify the lexical needs of specific groups. It then explains how this information was used to develop proficiency-level and task-specific teaching materials.