Terms & conditions of use

You can download and use data from the CEDEL2 corpora freely for research and teaching purposes under the following terms and conditions of use:

• CEDEL2 is released under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 ES) (Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivatives), which means that you must give appropriate credit when using the material, you cannot use the material for commercial purposes and, if you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
• Data have been collected anonymously. Users must refrain from further analysis and manipulation of the spoken/written data which may jeopardize or violate assumptions about confidentiality.
• When downloading data from the CEDEL2 corpora, you will be asked to provide information about how you intend to use the corpus. This information is collected anonymously for statistical purposes to keep track of the number of downloads and their uses.
• Please cite this paper when using data from CEDEL2 (versions 2 and 3) or simply when referring to the corpus (click on the link to download the paper):
  • Lozano, C. (2022). CEDEL2: Design, compilation and web interface of an online corpus for L2 Spanish acquisition research. Second Language Research, 38(4), 965-983. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583211050522
• You can also cite these papers for older versions of CEDEL2 (version 1):
  • Lozano, Cristóbal & Mendikoetxea, Amaya (2013). Learner corpora and SLA: the design and collection of CEDEL2. In A. Díaz-Negrillo, N. Ballier & P. Thompson (Eds.), Automatic Treatment and Analysis of Learner Corpus Data. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 65-100.
  • Lozano, Cristóbal (2009). CEDEL2: Corpus Escrito del Español L2. In: Bretones Callejas, Carmen M. et al. (eds) Applied Linguistics Now: Understanding Language and Mind / La Lingüística Aplicada Hoy: Comprendiendo el Lenguaje y la Mente. Almería: Universidad de Almería, pp. 197-212.