The Project

The project of International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage (ICCI) is an international joint project of learner corpus initiated by Prof. Yukio Tono from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies(TUFS), Japan, in 2007 and started in March, 2008. Its aim is to compile corpora of young learners of English across different proficiency levels and L1 backgrounds in the world. There are currently 12 scholars from 8 countries/regions (Hong Kong, Germany, Israel, China, Japan, Poland, Singapore, Spain, and Taiwan) actively contributed to this project.

ICCI is one of the research projects within the framework of the G-COE program. The Global COE Program is a 5-year government-funded project for promoting research as the centre of excellence in specialized fields. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) has been granted as one of such leading research institutes in the field of linguistics and language education. The special theme for this COE program for TUFS is called "corpus-based linguistics and language education", in which three major disciplines, namely, field linguistics, corpus linguistics, and language education are to be closely linked to each other to train researchers who are competent in doing research on various aspects of language with the integrated perspectives of the above three fields.

Project Director

Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies(TUFS), Japan.

Members (in alphabetical order by first name)

• Agnieszka Lenko-Szymanska, University of Warsaw, Poland.
• Austina Shih, The Language Training & Testing Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Barbara Schiftner, University of Vienna, Austria.
• David Y. W. Lee, University of Wollongong, Australia.
• Huaqing Hong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
• Maria Belen Diez Bedmar, University of Jaen, Spain.
• May Ma, The Language Training & Testing Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Pascual Perez-Paredes, Universidad de Murcia, Spain.
• Tammar Aviad, University of Haifa, Israel.
• Yongbing Liu, Northeast Normal University, China.
• Tom Rankin, University of Vienna, Austria.

Online Query

The online query is designed for the ICCI team members. A valid user id and password is required to get access to the query interface and the list of corpus files available to download. If you don't have a user id and password, please write to .
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