Frequency Normalization Table for Past Simple Habitual Expressions

5.5 KB Excel file containing a frequency normalization table per 100,000 words. The data was created by Aman Matebie Dagnaw and last updated in April 2026. It supports a study comparing an Ethiopian Students Corpus to the British National Corpus to analyze learner errors in past simple habitual constructions.

Use Cases

• Normalizing error frequencies for cross-corpus comparison based on the described corpus-based instruction study.
• Analyzing common learner mistakes like subject omission and misuse of 'used to' based on the qualitative analysis mentioned.
• Training models to identify grammatical overgeneralization patterns based on the error types identified in the description.

Strengths

• Data is licensed under CC-BY-4.0, permitting open reuse.
• The study design is explicitly described as a nonequivalent pretest-posttest control group design.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Aman Matebie Dagnaw

Collection Method

Likely derived from quantitative and qualitative analysis of written tests and corpus comparisons.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 17:49:12; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Study involved an Ethiopian Students Corpus, suggesting a focus on learners from Ethiopia.