Objectives

The ACC SIG aims to:

• Develop a comprehensive multilingual corpus comprising productive and receptive language data across various languages from ALTE members.
• Establish consistent CEFR threshold criteria based on SOTA methodology
• Standardise annotation processes to classify corpus texts to enable future research

For more detailed information, please see the ALTE Common Corpus website, here.

Activities

Participants in the ACC SIG will engage in:

• Biannual workshops focusing on methodological discussions, analytical frameworks, and practical corpus annotation strategies.
• Collaborative decision-making sessions to set unified thresholds and criteria for corpus inclusion and classification.
• Interactive sessions aimed at identifying and agreeing upon key variables affecting language proficiency levels within diverse text types.