Discourse from a Digital Forum on Bilingual Education in Madrid (2022-2023)

A text corpus of 117 English-language assistant teachers' forum posts discussing Madrid's bilingual education program. The data was collected by Maria Fernandez Agüero from an online community of practice during the 2022-2023 academic year. The dataset was last updated on the platform in October 2025.

Use Cases

• Analyze discursive strategies and narrative positioning based on the forum posts mentioned in the description.
• Study community of practice dynamics among bilingual educators based on the online forum context.
• Train or fine-tune NLP models for educational discourse based on the English-language teacher text corpus.
• Investigate opinions and attitudes towards bilingual education policy based on the responses to the specific prompt.

Strengths

• Corpus size is explicitly defined as 117 language assistants.
• Data collection context is clearly described: an online forum for a specific academic year (2022-2023) in a defined region (Madrid, Spain).
• The research aim and prompt ('What’s your opinion on Madrid’s Bilingual Education?') are stated, providing clear semantic boundaries.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific modeling tasks.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to its specific source context.

Provenance

Source

e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse, author Maria Fernandez Agüero.

Collection Method

Derived from a digital forum where 117 language assistants from bilingual schools in Madrid responded to a specific prompt.

Time Range

Academic year 2022-2023.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-14 21:28:17; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Region of Madrid, Spain.