The Corpus of Multilingual Opinion Essays
by College Students (MOECS)

The Corpus of Multilingual Opinion Essays by College Students (MOECS) is a collection of essays by college students. This is open to any researchers only for a research purpose. The corpus includes essays of English (collected in Australia including international students with English as a first language background), Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese first language (L1), and English of Japanese learners, Japanese of English learners, Japanese of Korean learners, and Japanese of Taiwanese learners. 

The MOECS is useful for L1 studies, L2 studies and studies in L1 influence, written discourse studies, and more!

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This work is primarily supported by (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (Grant Number 25370705, primary researcher Megumi Okugiri, co-researchers Kazuko Komori and Ikuko Ijuin, from April 2013 to March 2015) and Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (Grant Number 19720119, main researcher Ikuko Ijuin).

The Corpus of Multilingual Opinion Essays by College Students Development Team Member
  Megumi Okugiri (University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo)
  Ikuko Ijuin (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
  Kazuko Komori (Meiji University)

We are deeply grateful to Hideo Oka (Professor Emeritus, the University of Tokyo), Junko Mikuni (Bunka Gakuen University), Paul Rossiter (Professor Emeritus, the University of Tokyo), Tom Gally (the University of Tokyo), and Shin'ichiro Ishikawa (Kobe University), Claire Maree (University of Melbourne), Tomoko Aoyama (University of Queensland), Shimako Iwasaki (Monash University), Ikuko Nakane (University of Melbourne), Peter Ellerton (University of Queensland), Maki Yoshida (Graduate Student at University of Melbourne), Jae-ho Lee (Tsukuba University), Hiroyuki Noguchi (Nagoya University), Noriko Ataka, Tomomi Amakawa, Keiko Takahashi, Shuchang Lin (Yuan Ze University), Juhyoun Ro (Duksung Women's University) and all participants for their support and insightful comments. 

For questions or inquiries, contact Dr. Megumi Okugiri: okugiri(a)u-sacred-heart.ac.jp (change (a) into @)