Vol. 10 No. 2 (2022): Special issue: Young Learner Writing. Studies of the TRAWL (Tracking Written Learner Language) Corpus

This special issue introduces the TRAWL (Tracking Written Learner Language) corpus and presents some of the first studies that have been carried out on the TRAWL material thus far. TRAWL is a longitudinal corpus of young learner writing in primary and secondary schools in Norway, with authentic school texts in L1 Norwegian, L2 English and the most commonly taught L3s in Norwegian schools, French, German and Spanish1. The aim of the TRAWL research group has been to create a corpus that addresses some of the needs in current learner corpus research, is compiled according to established design criteria and is openly available for research. With this special issue, we wish to inspire a wide range of studies of young learner writing based on TRAWL data in the years to come.

Editors: Ingrid Kristine Hasund, Eli-Marie Danbolt Drange, Henrik Martin Hansen Torjusen