Corpusurile de limba română și importanța lor în realizarea de materiale didactice pentru limba română ca limbă străină

Abstract

The Romanian Corpora and their importance in creating teaching materials for Romanian L2

The article has two aims: 1. to describe the corpora of contemporary non-dialectal Romanian, including both electronic corpora — The Romanian Balanced Annotated Corpus (ROMBAC), RoCo_News (a Journalistic Corpus of Romanian), The Reference Corpus of Contemporary Romanian Language (CoRoLa), etc. — and raw oral corpora, available in print only — Româna vorbită actuală (ROVA), Corpus de română vorbită (CORV), Interacţiunea verbală în limba română actuală (IVLRA), Corpus de limbă română vorbită actuală (CLRVA), etc.; 2. to plead for using corpora for pedagogical purposes, especially in creating teaching materials for Romanian as a foreign / second language. The article gives a short general description of the corpora and their applications in Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching. The Romanian corpora are hardly known even by the Romanian researchers; their presentation takes into account the stylistic structure, annotation, number of words and tokens, etc. (for electronical corpora); the number of texts, the period of time when the records were made, the type of texts, etc. (for oral corpora in print). The second part contains some examples of possible corpora applications for Romanian as a foreign/ second language: a list of the most frequent words; the refinement of the characteristics of various types of texts (medical, legal, journalistic, fiction, etc.); the most relevant contexts for the argumental structure of verbs, adjectives, etc. 

In fact, the aim of the paper is to argue for developing annotated corpora for Romanian, easily accessible to researchers, professors and even students, and for using the existing corpora for pedagogical purposes.