Graphic Online Language Diagnostic

  The Graphic Online Language Diagnostic (“GOLD”) is a corpus tool that allows language educators to submit and analyze language data. GOLD was developed by the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (“CALPER”) at The Pennsylvania State University (“PSU”), University Park, PA, USA under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education (Title … Read more

TAALES 2.2 is out : automatic analysis of lexical sophistication, Windows and Mac

From the TAALES website: Kyle, K. & Crossley, S. A. (2015). Automatically assessing lexical sophistication: Indices, tools, findings, and application. TESOL Quarterly 49(4), pp. 757-786. doi: 10.1002/tesq.194 TAALES is a tool that measures over 400 classic and new indices of lexical sophistication, and includes indices related to a wide range of sub-constructs. TAALES indices have … Read more

4th Learner Corpus Research Conference, Bolzano, Italy, 5‐7 October 2017

4th Learner Corpus Research Conference Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, 5‐7 October 2017 http://lcr2017.eurac.edu Abstracts should be submitted through EasyChair by Sunday 15 January 2017. Notification of the outcome of the review process will be sent by 31 March 2017. Call for Papers Following the successful conferences in Louvain‐la‐Neuve (Belgium) in 2011, Bergen (Norway) in 2013 and Nijmegen … Read more

The value of languages, Prof. Wendy Ayres-Bennett

A SLEG seminar, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge Prof. Wendy Ayres-Bennett, U. Cambridge :::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Challenges: staff recruitment transition to Secondary inconsitent marking (A levels) lack of confidence in the new A levels decline of Modern Languages in HE (HEFCE data) post-BREXIT UK? 2009 Worton report for HEFCE (Link here) Objectives of the Multilinguialism Cambridge-led … Read more