TY - JOUR AU - Ece Genç-Yöntem AU - Evrim Eveyik-Aydın PY - 2021/06/22 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The compilation of a developmental spoken English corpus of Turkish EFL learners JF - Research in Corpus Linguistics JA - RiCL VL - 10 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.32714/ricl.10.01.03 UR - https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/view/173 AB - Although compiling a spoken learner corpus is not a recent enterprise, the number of developmental learner spoken corpora in the field of corpus linguistics is not satisfactory. This report describes the compilation of the Yeditepe Spoken Corpus of Learner English (YESCOLE), a 119,787-word corpus of Turkish students’ spoken English at tertiary level. YESCOLE was compiled to generate a developmental corpus of spoken interlanguage by collecting samples from learners of different English proficiency levels at regular short intervals over seven months. In order to shed light on the laborious methodology of compiling the developmental spoken learner corpus, this paper elucidates the steps taken to build YESCOLE and discusses its potential benefits for research and instructional purposes. ER -