한국언어과학회

The purpose of the study is to introduce the compilation of the Korean learner corpus of spoken English, BUFS (Busan University of Foreign Studies) Spoken Learner Corpus of English (BUFS-LCSE) and its possible applications in the study of Korean learner’s use of spoken English. Since few spoken learner corpora of English have been compiled in Korea, there is a limit to describe actual language use of Korean EFL learners. For this, the BUFS-LCSE was constructed under the Language Pathfinder (LP) program supported by the project of the Korean University Innovation (2nd) in 2021. From the perspective of compilation, it focuses on the following three: 1) speaker-related characteristics, 2) corpus specification, 3) translation procedure. From the perspective of application, the corpus is able to provide patterns of Korean learner’s language use focusing on centrality and typicality. This study can contribute to providing a comprehensive description of Korean EFL learners’ interlanguage and offering insights into second language acquisition.