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Final year high school examination texts of South African home and first additional language subjects

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dc.contact.emailmenno.vanzaanen@nwu.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.contact.nameMenno van Zaanenen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorSibeko, Johannes
dc.contributor.authorvan Zaanen, Menno
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-23T09:20:22Z
dc.date.available2022-11-23T09:20:22Z
dc.date.issued2022-11-16
dc.descriptionThis data collection consists of reading comprehension and summary writing texts. The texts comprise of the final year high school exam texts for Home Language (HL) and First Additional Language (FAL) subjects written in South Africa between 2008 and 2020. The text collection contains texts from all eleven official South African language subjects: Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho, Setswana, Sepedi, Siswati, Tshivenda, and Xitsonga. PDF versions of the texts were downloaded from South Africa's Department of Basic Education online public access repository. Plain text was extracted using pdftotext (version 22.02.0). The texts were then tokenized using Ucto (version 0.21.1). The data collection contains a total of 429 exam text files comprising a total of 1,314,551 tokens with 131,650 types (i.e., unique tokens). Of these, 223 are HL texts that have 689,730 tokens and 88,009 types, whereas the 206 FAL text documents contain 624,821 tokens with 73,451 types. In addition to the full exam texts, the reading comprehension and summary writing texts are extracted manually. The data is useful for studies investigating, e.g., linguistic properties, text readability, text properties, text difficulty, and linguistic complexity in any of the eleven languages. Furthermore, both intra-language and inter-language comparisons can be made.en_ZA
dc.formatpdf, texten_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12185/568
dc.languagesAfrikaansen_ZA
dc.languagesEnglishen_ZA
dc.languagesisiNdebeleen_ZA
dc.languagesisiXhosaen_ZA
dc.languagesisiZuluen_ZA
dc.languagesSepedien_ZA
dc.languagesSetswanaen_ZA
dc.languagesSesothoen_ZA
dc.languagesSiswatien_ZA
dc.languagesTshivendaen_ZA
dc.languagesXitsongaen_ZA
dc.media.typeTexten_ZA
dc.publisherSouth African Centre for Digital Language Resourcesen_ZA
dc.rights.licenseCreative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.enen_ZA
dc.subjectexam textsen_ZA
dc.subjecthigh schoolen_ZA
dc.titleFinal year high school examination texts of South African home and first additional language subjectsen_ZA

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