The ELFA project investigates English as an academic lingua franca. The project is divided into three subprojects.
ELFA corpus In 2008, The ELFA corpus project completed the compilation of a one-million-word corpus of spoken academic English as a lingua...
WrELFA corpus The Written ELF in Academic Settings (WrELFA) project is a new opening in the ELF research field. The WrELFA corpus of written...
SELF project The project "Studying in English as a Lingua Franca" (SELF) seeks to relate the linguistic perspective to a more qualitative and...
SciELF corpus The SciELF corpus consists of research papers that have not undergone professional proofreading services or checking by a native speaker of...
PhD examiner reports PhD examiner reports for submitted doctoral theses were collected from six faculties in the University of Helsinki during 2011-2012. These...
Academic research blogs The research blog subcorpus consists of a sample of posts from 40 different research blogs, all of which are maintained by L2 users of...