Some resources for the building of parallel corpora
Michael Barlow’s site (Link). European Parallel Corpus (Link) OPUS (Link) Parallel corpora in Sketch Engine (Link) AntPConc software (Link)
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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
Education crisis? Yes. Revisit 1970.
Ours is an age of crisis […] The crisis in the classroom – the public school classroom, the college classroom, the national classroom created by the mass media and by the operation of the American political system- is both a reflection of and a contributor to the larger crisis of American society. It cannot be … Read more
Corpus Pragmatics: new journal
Corpus pragmatics (Springer) is s platform for research and discussion in the linguistic discipline at the intersection of corpus linguistics and pragmatics. A forum for research and discussion on the new linguistic discipline at the intersection of corpus linguistics and pragmatics. Aims to enlarge and implement current pragmatic theories that have yet to benefit … Read more