RuTOC: A Corpus of Online Lessons in Russian as a Foreign Language

Abstract

В статье рассматривается опыт создания корпуса онлайн-занятий по русскому языку как иностранному в вузах России.

The paper describes the project of RuTOC - a corpus of online lessons in Russian as a foreign language - and presents the first results of corpus analysis. The corpus RuTOC presented in the article is a specialtype of corpus, specifically, a corpus of classroom academic or educational discourse. Such collections of text data serve as a basis of discursive and sociolinguistic studies of classroom communication and investigation of the second language acquisition and make a certain contribution to the development of the pedagogical theory and practice.